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States Are Collecting Detailed Outcome Data on Treatment Services SA Agencies Are Well‐Positioned as States Try to Assist Gamblers Faces & Voices Establishes Peer Accreditation Corporation Unofficial Poll Responses to Strategic Alliance California DHCS Responds to Unfolding Story of Fraud and Abuse Baltimore Prepares for State MH/SA Integration with Merger Names in the News Coming up     

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MAT, Especially Vivitrol, Gets a Foothold in the Criminal Justice System Interventionists Should be Open and Transparent with Programs TRI Reports on Shortfalls of Adolescent Treatment Project Synergy: DEA Raids Synthetic Drug Purveyors CRC Resolves Medicaid Fraud Allegations with $9.2 Million Sum Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Addiction Treatment Growing as a Financial Investment Denver Center Pursues Integration While Honing its Specialty Care SBIRT Focus: Not to Find Alcoholics, but to Prevent the Disease M.D. Says Doctors Feel Pressured to Over‐Prescribe Opioids A Federation of State Addiction Counseling Licensing Boards ATTC Awards Announced for Next 5 Years Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Medical Marijuana Debate Raises the Question: Why Not Dronabinol? Business Factors Can Trump Health in Facilities' Smoking Policies NARR‐SCRA Policy Gives New Legitimacy to Sober Homes Drug Courts Advance on Several Fronts AA Clinical Trials Not Practical, but ‘Workaround’ Exists Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Recovery Coaches — New Standards for Volunteers Only? Programs Treating Offenders Should Provide Specialized Services Oregon Audit Finds Not Treating Offenders Costly West Virginia Launches Database to Let CPS Scan Drug Arrests Drug Tests for Welfare Vetoed by North Carolina Governor Briefly Noted State News Names in the News Coming up     

THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION

"Equality Of Rights Under The Law Shall Not Be Denied Or Abridged By The United States Or By Any State On Account Of Sex"— Proposed Equal Rights Amendment     

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Tennessee Prosecutor Says New Pregnancy Law Not Strong Enough Using Clinicians as Selling Point Involves More than Degree Titles NAPW Comments: Nashville isn't Rural Tennessee Two California Counties Sue Opioid Rx Drug Manufacturers Sky Toxicology to Donate 50 $10,000 Awards to Treatment Programs for Needy Patients Mass. Facilities Benefit from AG Settlement with Janssen Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Study Finds Alcohol Abuse or Dependence Causes Depression, Not Vice Versa Communities Rethink D.A.R.E. as Police Struggle to Maintain Programs Addiction Treatment Providers Spared Worst of Vt. Budget Cuts Parity: Knowns and Unknowns Briefly Noted State News Business News Coming up     

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Some States, Not Waiting for MHPAEA, Move to Enact Their Own Parity Laws CEOs Seeking Grants Favor Do‐it‐Yourself Approach to Writing In California, Parity Would Transfer Mental Illness Problems from Police Waiting Lists for SUD Treatment at the VA Nothing New Researchers Say There is No Evidence E‐Cigarettes are Harmless AdCare Purchases SSTAR Facility in R.I. Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Health Reform Means More Covered Patients for Addiction Treatment Field Keen Interest in Medicaid Compliance Course as N.Y. Agencies Question Audits New Software Allows Providers to Match Patients to Other Services SAMHSA: Treatment Programs Lax in Arranging for Infectious Disease Screening Utah Study Finds High Rate of Chronic Pain in Rx Drug Overdoses Not Having Addiction Providers on Panels Would Violate Parity Briefly Noted State News Employment Call for Comments Coming up     

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Delaware Uses Penalties and Rewards to Increase Utilization and Retention ONDCP Strategy Document Addresses Rx Monitoring, ATR, Screening Delaware: Not NOMs Sex‐Drug Fusion Complicates Methamphetamine Recovery House Passes Parity Bill No Medication‐Substance Abuse Link Found in ADHD Study Clarifications Briefly Noted State Watch Business Names in the News Coming up     

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Centers Prepare for Flu's Effects by Educating Both Staff and Clients NQF Standards for Treating SUDs Move Closer to Implementation by States Mo. Requires Providers to Offer Medication‐Assisted Treatment Obesity Linked to Addiction in Rat Study of Brain Reward Center Field Should be Unified, Not Split, by NIDA‐NIAAA Merger Talks ‘Chronic Inebriates’ Who are Homeless Caught Between State and Local Care Briefly Noted In the States Coming up     

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Health Affairs Study Finds Mass. Reform Did Not Add to Treatment Rolls Daytop Village Sees Bankruptcy as Vehicle to Stronger Future Maryland MH, SA Agencies Plan Merger, Focus on Integration Ohio Governor Proposes Merger of MH and SA Departments OTP Patients Seek Methadone from Pill Mills Briefly Noted State News Names in the News Coming up     

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Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Addicts Can Resist Craving Canada Study of DWI Offenders Could Turn Notion of Resistance on its Ear Consumption‐Based Alcohol Screens May Not Detect Dependence UNCOPE Screen New York Offers Free Tuition and Training in Addictions Field Study: Older Alcoholics Drink More than Younger Alcoholics California Health Professionals in Recovery Under New Scrutiny Briefly Noted State News Resources Call for Presentations Names in the News Coming up     

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Will SUDs Get ‘Lost’ in New Three‐Part Alliance? Even after Final Rule on Parity, Providers May Have to Be Activists Outsider Comments on Alliance California Suspends 16 Programs from Medicaid Payments SAMHSA Warns of Fentanyl‐Laced Heroin and Cocaine ‘Sex Addiction’ May Not Be a Brain Disease: Research Weiss and Carnes Critique Study Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Treatment Centers: 12‐Step and MAT Should Coexist Providers Can Challenge Insurance without Compromising Collegiality Urine Test Fraud Results in Fine for Kentucky Bupe Clinics ASAM Issues Safe Methadone Induction Guide, Noting OD Risks Study: Topiramate Helps Some Heavy Drinkers Cut Back Briefly Noted In the States Call for Nominations Coming up     

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Recession: It's Not Over for the States Hawaii's Substance Abuse Director Aims to Preserve Funding for Services Solutions for Treatment Providers MOE Requirements for SAPT Block Grants Report: Most Inmates Need Treatment, Few Get It Provider Fund Helps Patients Defray Costs SECAD: Mee‐Lee Urges Providers to Treat Whole Patient Treatment Can be Provided by EAP, But EAP Can't be a ‘Gatekeeper’ Alcohol Use Lower, Drug Use Higher, Among Blacks Than Average Briefly Noted State News Names in the News Coming up