Using the ATTC/NIDA Blending Products to Affect Change – Part 2 – Overview by Christine Higgins – Christine Higgins, MA, Dissemination Specialist for the Mid-Atlantic Node of Clinical Trials Network provides an overview of the NIDA Blending Products. This conference took place on July 13, 2012 in the Baltimore-Washington Metro area. It was sponsored by the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (a program of the Danya Institute), and the Mid-Atlantic Node Clinical Trials Network. It featured presentations on the Blending Products which are a collaborative effort of the The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network and the National Institute of Drug Abuse/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations Blending Initiative to disseminate trestmernt and training products based on results conducted by the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. The audience was made up of practitioners in the Substance Abuse Treatment workforce -us tools in the Blending products suite and give them an opportunity to learn how to implement a particular evidence based practice. More information about the NIDA Blending Initiative and its products is available here: www.drugabuse.gov

Broward Transitional Center: Immigrants With No Criminal History Get Lengthy …

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Their treatment — at the hands of the federal government and the Boca Raton-based firm hired to keep them at the 700-bed Broward Transitional Center — has become a growing controversy since July, when a detainee went on hunger strike and activists …
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How to Conquer Your Self-Destructive Patterns

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Which country, by the way, does not use the DSM series for classifying mental illness, rejecting it on the basis it is heavily dependent on a drug-treatment rather than multifactorial model, so they have their own classification system. … By her …
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Prescribing prognosis mostly positive

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The state is using new pain medication prescribing rules and a prescription monitoring program to help curb prescription drug abuse and misuse. … State rules implemented last year require consultations with pain specialists for patients who reach an …
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