Collaborative Impact Needed for the Opioid Epidemic

• By: Pamela Mattel, LCSW Acacia Network, Inc.
• April 16th, 2020
• community engagement, harm reduction, integrated care, medication-assisted treatment, naloxone training, opioid epidemic, stigma reduction, substance use treatment
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Acacia Network, the leading Latino integrated care nonprofit in NY, began in 1969 to address the consequences of heroin in the South Bronx. Our founding leaders, Carlos Pagan, Julio Martinez, Gumersindo Martinez, Hector Diaz, Evalina Lopez Antonetty, and Lorraine Montengreo, among others,...

Today’s Opioid Addiction and Overdose Epidemic: How We Can Make a Difference

• By: Jeffrey Selzer, MD Medical Society of the State of New York
• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment access, evidence-based care, healthcare workforce training, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder, overdose prevention, stigma reduction
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The opioid addiction and overdose epidemic that has ravaged America for two decades now has left almost no one untouched. From 1999 to 2017, more than 400,000 people in the United States have died from overdoses related to opioids. According to a poll by the American Psychiatric Association,...

Treatment Works! The Recipe to Recovery and Storytelling as Medicine

• By: Tom Wright, MD Rosecrance Health Network
• October 1st, 2018
• community support, mental health, purpose, recovery, stigma reduction, storytelling, substance use disorder, treatment
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When I was training to be a child psychiatrist many years ago, I had a mentor who was one of the most well-known and beloved child psychiatrists in Illinois: Jay Hirsch, MD. Jay had many sayings, quotes, and “clinical pearls” he taught all of us and I continue to use today. One of my favorites...