Opioid Tapering
Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
Category: Programs
Keep the program going, find referrals, work with families, maintain certification, get the best staff, report to corporate leadership, oh, yeah… and help people with addictive disease establish recovery. It’s a big menu. Here’s some help.
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The End for Patient Brokers
Several big insurance firms have already filed suit around overcharging and fraudulent billing.
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Recovery at Work
Do what you promised, regardless of employee or the job they hold. Fairness is important, and fairness is a perception.
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Individualizing Treatment With Alternative Therapies
Some approaches are better than others at helping an individual identify what works for them in understanding their disease and establishing a stable recovery.
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Conflict of Interest Case Study
Obviously, being able to give your own business a five star rating on a supposedly independent consumer website could be construed as an unfair advantage.
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In Luxury’s Lap
The goal is for patients to receive quality care regardless of where they happen to land in the treatment system.
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Gabapentin
You might say the drug itself may not be that dangerous, except to our patients.
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When It’s Just Business
I know how often the quest for business success has in the past overtaken and even overwhelmed the quest to deliver good services.
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Methadone Maintenance Plus
It’s the basic unit of most drug-free approaches. What would happen if it could be incorporated into the OTP curriculum?
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Is MAT Enough?
Of course with additional treatment responsibilities, a counselor couldn’t be expected to manage a caseload of up to 75.
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Cannabis Treatment
…we should be looking at modifying our historical approach to the addicted cannabis client, away from emphasis on legal consequences and mandated compliance, and towards a more patient-centered model.
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Compliance via Incentives
An important step that programs often skip: the collection of baseline data. Improvements are often incremental, and if you don’t know exactly where you started, it’s easy to miss them.
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Compliance via Fellowship
In his review of long-term outcome studies involving both alcohol and heroin users, Vaillant noted the inspirational aspects of such participation.
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