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....

Prescription Drug and Heroin Epidemic A Central New York Perspective

• By: Monika Taylor, LCSW, CASAC NYASAP Board Member
• July 1st, 2015
• addiction stigma, healthcare funding, medication-assisted treatment, methadone treatment, opioid addiction, overdose prevention, substance use disorders, treatment access
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Like much of the country, New York State is experiencing a public health crisis of a magnitude never before seen related to prescription opiate and heroin overdose and addiction. While efforts to address this crisis are multifaceted, many of those in need of treatment are unable to get the help...