Assisting Grieving Families to Find Closure While Maintaining Compliance with HIPAA

• By: Elaine M. Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Adv Kansas State University Christopher Ste. Marie, JD Community Health Action of Staten Island (CHASI)
• January 14th, 2025
• family, harm reduction, overdose, substance use disorder, support, Winter 2025 Issue
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The most fundamental goals of Harm Reduction and Buprenorphine Programs are to keep people alive and safe. Despite the best efforts of a very dedicated SUD workforce, over 107,000 people died of overdose deaths in 2023. Behind every overdose death is a family or friends in mourning. Often, they are...

Stigma and Recovery: New Approaches to Old Challenges

• By: Larry Hochwald Nat Etrog, LCSW Elaine M. Edelman, PhD, LCSW, CASAC-Adv
• July 1st, 2009
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Thomas R. Insel, MD stated, “Psychiatry is the only part of medicine where there is actually greater stigma for receiving treatment for these illnesses than for having them” (Insel, NIMH Report 2006). There are many aspects to the stigma surrounding mental illness. It manifests itself as a...