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How to Counter TikTok’s Mental Health Misinformation
…by companies to advertise on their behalf. They were selling teletherapy, telepsychiatry, supplements for ADHD and depression, and related products. For example, Cerebral, a telepsychiatry company that is under investigation…
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Severe, Long-Term Mental Illness: What Does it Take to Live Well?
…of which can be found at www.michaelbfriedman.com. He welcomes comments at mbfriedman@aol.com. Footnotes Mortality gap and physical comorbidity of people with severe mental disorders: the public health scandal | Annals…
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Zero Suicide in the United States
…undertaken by the NYS Office of Mental Health Bureau of Evidence-Based Services, with funding from NIMH to test and evaluate implementation strategies. NYS has served as a test system for…
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Implementing Trauma-Informed Care is a Journey, Not a Project
…and assessment tools, workflow, and documentation. BAC also ran a pilot test with the harm reduction program to examine the validity of delivering trauma-informed care using MBC. The work done…
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Strengthening the Addiction Workforce and Beyond
…complete the orientation coursework. OASAS also offers, at least monthly, free, online training on pertinent addiction topics which includes a year-long series on Ethics which can be accessed at: https://www.oasas.ny.gov/testportal/LTcourses.cfm…
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The ECT Controversy
…for an extended period, and that they characterize routine treatment with ECT in community settings.” And an excellent series in USA Today (www.clrp.org/pdf/PatientsDanger.pdf) also highlighted the dangers of ECT. The…
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Personalized Recovery-Oriented Services in the Era of Social Distancing
…thrive in an environment where they learn and gain support from one another as well as from the professional staff. PROS is very much a community. Alice Sorensen, LCAT, MT-BC…
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Making Addiction Treatment More Realistic and Pragmatic: The Perfect Should Not Be the Enemy of the Good
…overdose fatalities. Neither of these measures increase drug use in communities that implement them, as critics often worry. Other harm-reduction modalities being studied include personal drug-testing equipment like fentanyl test…
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Seven Tips for Teaching More Effective Job Skills
…was over communicating the curriculum, both verbally and with hand out text. Students complained of being overloaded with information. After testing a variety of media, we found a highly visual,…
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Point of View: Address the Mental Health Needs of People with Dementia and Their Caregivers
…to help them have the best possible quality of life is the critical goal. We see this not as competitive with, but as complementary to, biomedical research. Even among those…
