Pain and Its Impact on the Opioid Epidemic

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Columbia University School of Social Work
• April 16th, 2020
• addiction prevention, healthcare funding, opioid epidemic, overdose reversal, pain management, prescription opioids, public health policy, substance use disorder
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In several past articles on the opioid epidemic in America, I have complained that the problem of severe, chronic pain has been overlooked as a contributing factor. It appears that that is no longer true. For example, a very recent report by the National Academies of Science to the Food and Drug...

Primary Care Integration: Alternative Workforce Strategies for Community-Based Behavioral Health Service Organizations in the Era of Physician Shortages

• By: Rachael A. Petitti, PhD, LCSW University of New Haven Dpt. of Health Administration and Policy
• July 1st, 2019
• alternative care models, behavioral health, healthcare funding, nonprofit healthcare, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physician shortage, primary care integration
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It has been many years since the surgeon general report declared that vastly poor health outcomes for persons suffering from behavioral health disorders was a public health crisis. Lives filled with long term disability and early mortality caused, in part, by service fragmentation within the U.S....