February 8, 2012 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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In addition to establishing valuable tools to address medication compliance and the integration of primary care, more agencies are finding that onsite pharmacy services can help streamline processes, evaluate how treatment modalities are approached, and improve overall workflow for the entire organization.
February 6, 2012 News release
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Centerstone of Indiana has announced that Amanda Pardue has been named Regional Clinic Services Director, while Beth Rodriguez has been named director of development for its Indiana operations.
January 25, 2012 News release
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Hazelden is expanding its outpatient addiction treatment and mental healthcare services to Chaska, Minn., in a clinic that will serve adults and adolescents as young as 12.
January 24, 2012 News release
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Bridges to Recovery was recently granted a permanent license for its third residential treatment facility, located in Bel Air, Calif.
January 11, 2012 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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Last week, it became a little easier for the citizens of New Orleans to know where to look for treatment services, as Mayor Mitch Landrieu and health commissioner Dr. Karen DeSalvo released the city’s first “Behavioral Health Resource Guide."
November 15, 2011 Alison Knopf
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“At least half a million Americans in prison today wouldn't be there if they had instead been ordered to treatment for their substance use or mental
November 15, 2011 Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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By April 2000, when he was named President and CEO of Bexar County Mental Health Authority in San Antonio, Texas, Leon Evans had learned two very
November 15, 2011 Dennis G. Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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The November/December issue of Behavioral Healthcare examines a huge and expensive problem in our society: Far too many mentally ill and addicted people are in jail for non-violent offenses. These people don't need the stigma of jail time, they need the help of community-based treatment. The good news--as reported from Bexar County, Texas, is that jail diversion and improved community crisis care services not only helps, but reduces the problems of homelessness, cuts public costs for everything from police and jails to hospital ER visits, and nets its home community--the city of San Antonio--millions in savings each year.
November 15, 2011 Lori Ashcraft, PhD, and William A. Anthony, PhD
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“Are we crazy?” That was the question that ran through the mind of Superintendent Joseph Mazurkiewicz at the State Correctional Institution at Greensburg in July as he unpacked materials in preparation for a peer support class, the first of a series of six planned in the Special Needs units of six prisons in Pennsylvania.
November 15, 2011 Martha M. Dore, PhD and Borja Alvarez DeToledo, MEd
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“Kevin” is a handsome young man of 14 with a 100 kilowatt smile and mischievous brown eyes who loves playing video games and roughhousing with his
October 31, 2011 News release
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Beverly Hills, Calif. — For its second anniversary the children's charity, Let's Erase the Stigma Educational Foundation (LETS), will host their 2nd
October 30, 2011 James Schuster, MD, Darlene Karpaski, NBCCH, CPRP, Gail Kubrin, MD, Patricia Deegan, PhD, and Nancy Parrotta, LPC, NCC
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Since Turtle Creek Valley Mental Health/Mental Retardation, Inc., turned to Shared Decision Making (SDM), its doctors and therapists are hearing a lot more important questions from clients who had been reticent in the past.
