BHN Winter 2020 Issue

• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment, behavioral health, community outreach, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, public health policy, substance use disorder
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"Addressing the Nation's Opioid Epidemic"   Articles in This...

Adding Recovery Professionals to the Continuum of Care

• By: Ruth Riddick The Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP)
• July 1st, 2019
• addiction recovery, building recovery capital, continuum of care, life skills, peer support, recovery, recovery coaching, substance use disorder
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What is the purpose of our work, of all the prevention, intervention and therapy, all that merciful medical model and multi-volume DSM? The treatment plans? Aftercare? All this helping apparatus – what’s it for? Now, the agreed response is that “recovery” is our mutual goal irrespective...

Strengthening the Addiction Workforce and Beyond

• By: Arlene González-Sánchez NY State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS)
• July 1st, 2019
• addiction, prevention, recovery, substance use disorder, training, workforce
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Over 20,000 professionals make up the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Workforce in NYS. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the SUD workforce will grow at a much faster rate than other occupations in the country and in NYS. The Credentialed Alcoholism and...