February 21, 2012 Steve Bell
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Please welcome new blogger Steve Bell. Steve is the founder and executive director of the Colorado state chapter of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, DBSA Colorado, Inc., and BrainStorm Career Services, a consumer-run nonprofit. In recovery from a mood disorder for over 10 years, Steve has been involved in grass roots community organizing for over 25 years, and he serves as the mental health community representative on the Colorado State Rehabilitation Council.
February 9, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD, Exec Dir, NACBHDD
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February is National Heart Month. Not only is the prevalence of heart problems staggering in the US population, but the mortality from heart attack and stroke among behavioral health consumers and peers is a national disgrace. We must savea million hearts!
January 18, 2012 Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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I invite you to see how Behavioral Healthcare magazine has changed at www.behavioral.net. This new site, the product of months of work by not only the editorial team, but of a much larger team of Vendome Group colleagues, offers you, our readers, a new presentation and more of the news, information, and analysis that you’ve come to expect from Behavioral Healthcare.
January 7, 2012 Douglas Braun-Harvey
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It turns out there is a significant discrepancy between local and national criminal definitions of what constitutes "Forcible Rape" and the FBI crime statistic definition of rape.
January 4, 2012 Terry L. Stawar, Ed.D.
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After a year-long collaborative effort, on Dec. 22, 2011 the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released its new definition of “recovery."
December 12, 2011 H. Steven Moffic, MD
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A patient I had not seen for over a year, came back after a letter was sent to him about closing his file. He had been treated for Attention Deficit Disorder in the past, and wanted to know if I would again take over prescribing that medication from his primary care physician. That seemed reasonable enough, but, I wondered, why now?
November 23, 2011 Dennis Grantham, Editor in Chief
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According to the The Washington Post, Donald Berwick, MD, the Harvard University professor and pediatrician appointed by President Obama to launch
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.
October 30, 2011 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
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America's counties emerging as key agents for healthcare service delivery
October 30, 2011 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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For Ben Underwood, FACHE, CEO and co-founder of Talbott Recovery Campus in Atlanta, luck is what set him on an intersecting path with Dr. Douglas Talbott in the late 1960s.
October 30, 2011 Dennis G. Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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One of the inmates undergoing treatment at the Bexar County Mentally Ill Offender treatment facility in San Antonio, Texas let me know exactly what he thought of my hometown when I visited this jail-diversion facility for a visit.
October 26, 2011 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
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The EHB will specify the floor benefit to be offered to new enrollees through Medicaid and through the insurance plans offered by the state health insurance exchanges (HIEs).
