SIMHS SafeTY.net Early Intervention Program Fills Gaps in Services for Staten Island Youth Battling Trauma-Related Substance Use/Abuse

• By: Fern A. Zagor, LCSW, ACSW Staten Island Mental Health Society
• January 1st, 2017
• addiction recovery, adolescent substance use, case management, community-based treatment, early intervention, trauma-informed care, Wraparound services, youth mental health
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For more than a decade, Staten Island has been harboring a shameful secret that is only recently coming to light. Our Island outranks each borough, as well as the whole of New York City and State, in the rate of adolescent drug and alcohol abuse, including binge drinking and use of prescription...

Maintaining Recovery as a Central Focus of Substance Use Disorder Services

• By: Arlene González-Sánchez NY State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS)
• July 1st, 2016
• addiction recovery, community-based services, opioid epidemic, peer support, recovery-oriented care, substance use disorders, supportive housing, treatment access
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For years, the health care system treated addiction as an acute condition: an individual battling addiction would be diagnosed, treated, guided to support and then left to their own devices on whether to succeed, or fail, in recovery. The good news is: for New York State, that is no longer the...

HHS Leaders Call for Expanded Use of Medications to Combat Opioid Overdose Epidemic

• By: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction recovery, medication-assisted treatment, naloxone, opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, prescription drug abuse, public health policy, treatment access
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A national response to the epidemic of prescription opioid overdose deaths was outlined in the New England Journal of Medicine by leaders of agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The commentary calls upon health care providers to expand their use of medications to treat...