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How Practitioners Can Help Patients Deal with COVID-19-Driven Anxiety
05/26/2020
Head outside your home right now and you’ll likely see empty streets, vacant tables at restaurants and deserted shelves at grocery stores. Conferences, sporting and theatrical events are being cancelled; schools largely suspended. Turn on the...
Head outside your home right now and you’ll likely see empty streets, vacant tables at restaurants and deserted shelves at grocery stores. Conferences, sporting and theatrical events are being cancelled; schools largely suspended. Turn on the...
Head outside your home right now...
05/26/2020
Addiction Professional
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05/20/2020
Sierra Tucson on Wednesday announced the launch of a mental health initiative to provide care for physicians, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare Heroes Trauma Recovery is a...
Sierra Tucson on Wednesday announced the launch of a mental health initiative to provide care for physicians, nurses and other frontline healthcare workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare Heroes Trauma Recovery is a...
Sierra Tucson on Wednesday...
05/20/2020
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05/14/2020
Several financial stressors created by the COVID-19 pandemic have been linked to higher odds of experiencing negative health behavior changes, including increased alcohol consumption, according to Flatten the Curve, a national survey...
Several financial stressors created by the COVID-19 pandemic have been linked to higher odds of experiencing negative health behavior changes, including increased alcohol consumption, according to Flatten the Curve, a national survey...
Several financial stressors...
05/14/2020
Addiction Professional
Overcoming Regrets: A Key to Clinician Resilience
03/27/2020
As a clinician, do you have any regrets? If so, how have you coped with such feelings? It’s probably impossible to do dedicated work in the addiction field without experiencing any regrets—whether related to clients, families or...
As a clinician, do you have any regrets? If so, how have you coped with such feelings? It’s probably impossible to do dedicated work in the addiction field without experiencing any regrets—whether related to clients, families or...
As a clinician, do you have any...
03/27/2020
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03/10/2020
Even as the opioid epidemic makes front-page headlines across the country, stigma persists as a barrier to recovery. An anti-stigma campaign designed in Huntington, West Virginia, has been an effective initiative for changing public...
Even as the opioid epidemic makes front-page headlines across the country, stigma persists as a barrier to recovery. An anti-stigma campaign designed in Huntington, West Virginia, has been an effective initiative for changing public...
Even as the opioid epidemic...
03/10/2020
Addiction Professional
These Patients Require Patience
02/10/2020
“Patience is a virtue.” Sage counsel for sure. For addiction professionals, however, patience is a requirement, because some of the people we serve are simply not ready to get well. Others do get well, only to break our hearts by relapsing or...
“Patience is a virtue.” Sage counsel for sure. For addiction professionals, however, patience is a requirement, because some of the people we serve are simply not ready to get well. Others do get well, only to break our hearts by relapsing or...
“Patience is a virtue.” Sage...
02/10/2020
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01/09/2020
Feeling any buyer's remorse about those New Year's resolutions you invested in emotionally last month? An alcohol and drug counselor at the Mountainside treatment facility in Canaan, Conn., says most of her patients can sympathize, having...
Feeling any buyer's remorse about those New Year's resolutions you invested in emotionally last month? An alcohol and drug counselor at the Mountainside treatment facility in Canaan, Conn., says most of her patients can sympathize, having...
Feeling any buyer's remorse...
01/09/2020
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11/07/2019
A film being shown to clinical professionals through screening events and conferences takes the position that patients beset by trauma, addiction and other serious conditions continue to carry a false and damaging narrative of themselves,...
A film being shown to clinical professionals through screening events and conferences takes the position that patients beset by trauma, addiction and other serious conditions continue to carry a false and damaging narrative of themselves,...
A film being shown to clinical...
11/07/2019
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10/29/2019
With some patterns of opioid use declining and stimulant use re-emerging in many communities, Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH, still would prefer that the field avoid identifying the next drug crisis by name of drug. At the Nov. 8-10 National...
With some patterns of opioid use declining and stimulant use re-emerging in many communities, Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH, still would prefer that the field avoid identifying the next drug crisis by name of drug. At the Nov. 8-10 National...
With some patterns of opioid use...
10/29/2019
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10/25/2019
A combination of stigma, lack of coverage, as well as not enough time, resources and training being given to physicians, all are creating barriers to treatment for individuals with substance use disorder. While they shouldn’t be considered a...
A combination of stigma, lack of coverage, as well as not enough time, resources and training being given to physicians, all are creating barriers to treatment for individuals with substance use disorder. While they shouldn’t be considered a...
A combination of stigma, lack of...
10/25/2019
Addiction Professional

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