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Informational pamphlet from American Society of Addiction Management...share because information matters!
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ASAM Pocket Guidelines and Patient Guide - ASAM Opioid Patient Piece
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ASAM Opioid Addiction Treatment GUIDELINES Apps and Pocket Guides brought to you courtesy of Guideline Central. Enjoy!More information about the latest funding - for FY2018 - which is great.
Every state will receive a minimum of $4M - see this link for more information!
BTW - this is applicable for all states. Perhaps you can contact the appropriate health agency in your state to learn more about their efforts?
www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-18-015
State Opioid Response Grants | SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2018 State Opioid Response Grants (Short Title: SOR).News Release
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Friday, June 15, 2018
SAMHSA announces $930 million funding opportunity to combat the opioid crisis
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is now accepting applications for $930 million in State Opioid Response Grants. SAMHSA will distribute funds to states and territories in support of their ongoing efforts to provide prevention, treatment and recovery support services to individuals with opioid use disorder.
The State Opioid Response Grants aim to address the opioid crisis by increasing access to evidence-based medication-assisted treatment, reducing unmet treatment need and reducing opioid-related overdose deaths. “This large new grant program reflects President Trump’s deep commitment to fighting the opioid crisis, and will provide extra support for the hardest-hit states,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. “It demonstrates the emphasis we place on expanding access to treatment that works, especially medication-assisted treatment with appropriate social supports.”
The grants will be awarded to the states and territories using a formula specified in the funding announcement. Fifteen percent of the total funds will be set aside to provide extra support to states that have been hardest hit by the crisis. States and territories will use the grants to design plans and conduct activities across the spectrum of prevention, treatment, and recovery.
These prevention, treatment, and recovery activities represent a comprehensive response to the opioid crisis and include action at the federal, state and local levels. “The State Opioid Response Grants were designed to meet the specific needs of communities within each state and territory,” explained Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Dr. Elinore F. McCance-Katz. “The grants will expand capacity to provide much needed evidence-based care to people who haven’t yet been reached.”
Under President Trump, in April 2017, HHS unveiled a new five-point Opioid Strategy. The Strategy prioritizes efforts in five areas: 1) Improving access to prevention, treatment and recovery support services, including medication-assisted treatment; 2) Promoting the targeted availability and distribution of overdose-reversing drugs; 3) Strengthening public health data reporting and collection; 4) Supporting cutting-edge research on addiction and pain and 5) Advancing the practice of pain management. Over fiscal years 2017 and 2018, HHS will invest over $4 billion in opioid-specific funding, including funds to state and local governments as well as tribal, public, and nonprofit organizations to support treatment and recovery services, target availability of overdose-reversing drugs, train first responders and more.
For more information on how to apply, see
www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-18-015.
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Years back when first speaking on stigma, research was either limited or didn't focus on substance use disorder (SUD). Things are changing and we are finding often subtle yet powerful ways to reduce stigma and increase solutions.
Example: if you want to decrease stigma about SUD describe treatment for this disease - it is real!
Too often there are complaints about stigma but ideas on how to reduce or eliminate it end up rants about how unfair it is. Rants rarely resolve any stigma.
Instead we stand, tell our stories and put a face on this disease. We live in the trenches with those suffering so they begin to realize they DO matter. We walk beside those whose loved ones are suffering to help them navigate tricky waters.
For other ideas consider this...
www.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/programs_campaigns/02._webcast_1_resources-508.pdf
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In order to reduce stigma language does matter. Here's a good site with the "addictionary".....
www.recoveryanswers.org/addiction-ary/
Addictionary - Glossary of Substance Use Disorder Terminology
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Glossary of over 200 top addiction-related words defined | The verified reference for addressing the stigmatizing terminology of substance use disorderWitness the change and be a part of it....
As part of the positive change, James' Place is proud to stand side by side with so many in Maryland and across the U.S. The investment in time, energy and creative solution building by so many is not measurable.
As some complain that "nothing is being done" - what are THEY doing?
Be part of solution; it's the only path forward to save lives.
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Hogan-Rutherford Administration Announces $40 Million to Fight Heroin and Opioid Epidemic
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Hogan-Rutherford Administration Announces $40 Million to Fight Heroin and Opioid Epidemic Prevention, Enforcement, and Treatment and Recovery Efforts to Expand in FY 2019 June 12, 2018 ANNAPOLIS, MD — Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center, the Maryland Department of Health, and the Govern...Every day we hear "nothing is being done" about the addiction crisis. This is simply not true. How do we find out if we are part of the solution or part of the problem?
Look around - find the many ways you can learn about all that IS BEING DONE. Join a local coalition or community council collaborating for solutions. The cost? Your sweat equity, your creative ideas and some time.
Here's an organization we are proud to associate with - if nothing else, watch the brief, clever video for a sense of scope for today's solutions.
This is not a promotion to join anything, to invest a penny. That's completely up to you. Here's a source of great information - look for their Resource Hub to connect, to find hope.
www.facingaddiction.org/?home
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Facing Addiction is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions to addiction by unifying the voice of Americans directly impacted by addiction.Growing up I often spent my summers volunteering on Indian reservation communities in Arizona.
There was the Indian School near my home in Phoenix where children were brought in off the reservations to be educated and oriented to "civilized" ways of life. The school no longer exists but Indian School Road is a main east/west thoroughfare in the center of the city. Good to remember the history and then learn how stigma may still frame some folks thoughts.
"Every drug-free breath we take is an act of defiance."
www.williamwhitepapers.com/blog/2018/06/recovery-as-an-act-of-resistance.html
Recovery as an Act of Resistance | Blog & New Postings | William L. White
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June 8, 2018 Bill White Recovery as an Act of Resistance When a slave was drunk, the slave holder had no fear that he would plan an insurrection; no fear that he would escape to the north. It was the sober, thinking slave who was dangerous, and needed the vigilance of his master to keep him a slave....Important to keep in mind SAMSHA definition of recovery - no need to reinvent any wheels.
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AddThis is a free way to boost traffic back to your site by making it easier for visitors to share your contentScreaming "stop" at a wall of flood water never halted one drop. Yes, we have an epidemic of the disease of addiction (never leave out alcohol). Yes, much work is going forward and yet the number of those felled by this disease continues to rise. the number of folks experiencing the reversal of an overdose is rising higher in many areas, too. Where there is life there is hope!
Demands to "stop" must be in concert with collaboration on a grand scale. Be part of the solution or consider yourself part of the problem.
"Too often we imagine that our opioid crisis is new; the fact that it has been around, to varying degrees, for 150 years is a frustrating, even heartbreaking thought. But we can also take inspiration from the fact that we have tackled the problem before, and have won. ....
We have to maintain our emotional composure, avoid press hyperbole and abandon our impulse to racialize the issue. The tendency to incarcerate our problems often results in entire generations of less fortunate Americans leaving high school for jail. If we do not know our drug history, we can be sure there will be many more Ella Hendersons in our future."
www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/opinion/sunday/opioid-epidemic-history.html?action=click&module=MoreIn...
Opinion | America’s 150-Year Opioid Epidemic
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What can the country learn from the opium crisis of the 19th century?Welcome to Foundations Recovery Center, Woodlawn, MD!
Good to have our recovery options continuing to expand in this time of great need for substance use disorder.
Thanks to Basile Ferro for the invite to today's ribbon cutting!
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Foundations Recovery Center – Woodlawn, Maryland Addiction Treatment Center
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Great to see employers joining in to the solutions for the epidemic of addiction.
Smart choices can be substantial impact to not just one employer but other businesses in the area. Also great to model options for other employers.
money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/news/economy/employers-opioid-rehab-belden/index.html
This company needs workers so badly it's putting them through drug rehab
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Failing a drug test used to automatically disqualify workers at Belden, an Indiana-based manufacturer. Now, they have another option.What a great experience!
Yesterday Tom and I were guests at the Loudoun County Detention Center in Leesburg,VA. Invited out to be part of a day of training for deputies and clinical staff, we learned as we shared.
LCDC has a relatively new therapeutic community for those with substance use disorder and/or mental health issues. What an awesome program they are continuing to build! Too often those behind the walls don't get support like this.
Our focus was two fold: speak to the impact of SUD/MH on families especially when death occurs and educate on what is happening in the world of system change for treatment, law enforcement and criminal justice.
Most of the deputies are male, not all. The clinicians are female - so talented! Our position is to always come in prepared to learn as well as to educate. In the end, we all agreed this did happen. We've been invited back to speak to their CIT training programs.
My favorite moment? I asked if what we were sharing was of interest, was valuable. After a quiet pause, one deputy said that he was overwhelmed. That his long time in law enforcement had prepared him in one direction and now he was perplexed by new information. I consider that a positive reaction.
Many remained at the end of our session sharing stories, asking questions - every attendee took wristbands "No Shame or Blame ~ Just Love".
Sharing our stories and truths matter - collaboration is the only way through this epidemic.
Don't watch if you find "colorful" language offensive. Do watch if you want a broad overview of the state of rehab programs in the US today.
That said, it is important that we don't lie to ourselves and others about the state of our systems of care for behavioral health (mental/substance use disorder). That we continue to be part of the solution rather than part of the problems.
Heads down..focus on your targets and together we are making progress for this life threatening epidemic.
theweek.com/speedreads/774245/john-oliver-wants-finding-quality-rehab-easy-part-addiction-solutio...
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"Rehab is a place where people can address an addiction to drugs or alcohol, something that until relatively recently was seen as a moral failing that could be overcome with sheer willpower," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, using Belinda Carlisle and "an amazing PSA from the '80s" as...FDA Announcement - non opioid treatment for OUD.
This is new, short term use only. Early days but we need all the tools possible to save lives.
www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm607884.htm
FDA approves the first non-opioid treatment for management of opioid withdrawal symptoms in adults
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FDA approved Lucemyra (lofexidine hydrochloride) for the mitigation of withdrawal symptoms to facilitate abrupt discontinuation of opioids in adults.
