The national focus on improving access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) extends beyond providers who can prescribe buprenorphine. Pharmacy-level barriers exist for patients seeking to fill buprenorphine prescriptions at traditional retail pharmacies that ...
Technology is a growing part of our daily lives. Addiction treatment and recovery also continue to grow rapidly with more and more in need of finding services every day. Many facets of recovery can be ...
How do you make decisions at every level in your addiction treatment operations? When a decision is reached, what factors helped influence that decision? Your answer could have a dramatic impact on your center’s bottom ...
Accessible technology has credibly established its place in health care, improving service delivery, streamlining processes, and extending the availability of support when funding and staffing levels present a challenge to delivering an effective service. A ...
This column focuses on applications of Twelve Step principles in coping with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As of this writing, daily case numbers are again spiking, with experts predicting a particularly heavy caseload throughout the ...
In our previous article we reviewed the potential roles of social service organizations (SSOs) in addressing substance use issues among clients served. We also discussed Pressley Ridge’s programs for clients and families, and the challenges ...
In the last two years we have been faced with a global pandemic, isolation guidelines, mask policies, and loneliness. Many people are facing mental wellness challenges and their coping skills have been exhausted. Monitoring our ...
Over sixty years of research has led the field of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to conclude that the therapeutic alliance between counselors and clients is one of the key determinants of treatment outcome, accounting ...
Imagine discovering that your very small business is losing $70,000 a year. Would you want to fix it? Obviously the answer is “Yes,” but most businesses ignore this specific leak until it becomes so terrible ...
After losing our son to an accidental overdose on his fourth day of college, my wife and I founded the SAFE Project, a national nonprofit focused on helping reverse the addiction fatality epidemic. We, along ...
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