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.
If 70% or more of a jail population has been identified as having a drug or alcohol problem – that does happen – then what you’re really operating is a treatment center that happens to have bars on the windows and guards at the entrance.
One program complained that the incentive program seemed to work best with people who were already more motivated, and not as well with more resistant clients.
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And we don’t want to discover that we’ve inadvertently incentivized cheating.
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I get frequent questions from providers unsure how well their telehealth clients are actually doing, in terms of common measures like, say, substance use. Are they drinking, still using drugs?
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Turned out he was paid to steer others to his cannabis provider.
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Their presence sometimes go unnoticed because it’s the problem children that wind up in the media, the result of an incident or neighborhood complaints.
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One side sees the youth in terms of potential risk to society, while the other experiences the same youth as a victim in need of healing.
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Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
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I realized it wasn’t really me he was angry with. It was himself. For getting caught.
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They sought a trust relationship with the rehab– one that would continue through future referrals as well as the current one.
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These volunteers work for the welfare of the community by supporting the important work of your organization.
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I ask myself if this Board, as presently constituted, is capable of taking the organization to that level of success.
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Research admittedly takes a long time, including the need for replication, and patients in clinical programs aren’t necessarily willing to wait.
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