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Recovery and Treatment get Closer with Kerlikowske Speech at BFC Primary Care Focus of OTP Allows Inroads in Hepatitis C Care Senators Ask GAO to Investigate Treatment and Prevention How Parity and Recovery are Modernizing the Medical Model CalTAF to Pursue Insurance Companies for Denied Claims State News Coming up     

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Cocaine Deaths and Treatment Admissions Rising in Maine Utah Initiative for Offenders Links Treatment, Probation Methadone Overdoses and Medical Examiners For‐Profit Entity Growing Rapidly in Developing Faith‐Based Homes Residential Treatment Expansion in Montana Cough Medicine Abuse Reported in New NSDUH Analysis Successful Prisoner Reentry: Full Circle Recovery Programs at San Quentin Prison Briefly Noted State Watch Resources Grant Announcements Coming up     

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Provider Organizations Weigh Merits of Giving the Media Access to Patients Second Chance Act to Add $110 Million a Year for Treatment and Other Services Alcohol Problems Highest in Rural Western/Midwestern States SAMHSA Reports Show ‘tween’ Drug of Choice is Inhalants Caron CEO on Medical Leave After DWI Briefly Noted State Watch Resources Names in the News Coming up     

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Methadone Overdose Deaths Lead to Restrictive Bills in West Virginia Alabama Using SA Treatment Funds for Patients Discharged from Mental Facility Medical Examiners and Methadone Death Data Utah Governor Requests New Facilities, Drug Court Expansion Counseling Key to Buprenorphine Treatment SA Seen as Common Thread in Repeat Emergency Patients Briefly Noted Resources Names in the News Call for Applications Coming up     

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How CBT Can Help Addiction Treatment be More Recovery‐Oriented Hazelden Targets Young Adults for New NYC Programs Mixed News About Smoking from SAMHSA and the CDC New Commission for Accrediting Addiction Curricula ValueOptions Wins Grant to Use Peers to Cut Repeat Detox Teens in Substance Abuse Treatment Used Diverted Medical Marijuana: Study Briefly Noted Coming up     

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NIATx Pushes Treatment Programs to Operate More Like Medical Businesses Sierra Tucson Enhancing Assessment by Using SPECT Imaging Technology Benefits of Keeping Mom on Methadone Outweigh Risks to Baby How the Probuphine Trial was Done CSAT to Review Ways to Switch Patients From Opioids to Vivitrol Massachusetts Treatment Chain to Offer Vivitrol for Opioid Dependence TRI Issues Roadmap for Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment With Health Care Briefly Noted State Watch Coming up     

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Field Debates Pros and Cons of Suboxone Taper Using Film Arizona Center with Trauma Focus Moves to Up‐Front Pricing Model Calif. SSA Focuses on New County Financing and Demise of ADP ‘Recovery Wellness Rooms’ Make Presence Known at RNC, DNC This Needs to Change California Legislature Issues Report on Medical Ban in Treatment Programs How Combat‐Specific Does Treatment Have to be for Veterans? Briefly Noted Coming up     

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Supreme Court's Medical Marijuana Ruling Doesn't Change Treatment Field's Approach Sentencing Disparities Between Crack and Cocaine Powder Take the Forefront in Conn. How to Treat Patients Who Receive Medical Marijuana? What is Crack? DAWN Survey Reveals State, City Data on Death Rates SAMHSA Announces Availability of Outcomes Measurement Benchmarking Tool Delaware School Survey Finds Drug Use Stable Advocacy Group Is Planning Second National Summit Briefly Noted Coming Up…     

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NIATx and SAAS to Treatment Providers: Nothing's Worse Than Doing Nothing Rosecrance Sees MH Center Deal as a Plus in Health Reform Era Arapahoe House Gets Paid to Transport Intoxicated to Social Detox OASAS Gives Five Prisons Certificates for Treatment Programs Single Institute Likely to Replace NIDA and NIAAA TCA to Change Name, Open Membership to Non‐TC Programs OASAS Medical Director on ‘MSR’, Methadone, and Buprenorphine Briefly Noted In the States Coming up     

Group psychotherapy with pathological gamblers

This paper reviews some of the group therapy techniques utilized in the authors' work with pathological gamblers. These conceptual tools ranged from rational-emotive psychotherapy to Zen philosophy which provided a background and foundation for working with pathological gamblers. Many therapeutic and antitherapeutic beliefs and behaviors of gamblers are discussed including narcissism, manipulative behavior, and rejection of Gamblers Anonymous. Each technique, behavior or belief discussed is explained in terms of how each affects the group process and how each is managed in group therapy.This paper represents a discourse on the group treatment of pathological gamblers primarily from the experiences of Julian Ingersoll Taber, Ph.D. who was the coordinator of the Gambling Treatment Program at the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center for seven years. Dr. Taber is currently Chief of the Addictive Disorders Treatment Program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Reno, Nevada. Martin Paul Chaplin, Ph.D., who is specializing in the treatment of addiction, assisted in the theoretical and editorial aspects of this article. He worked under the aegis of Dr. Taber as an intern at the Gambling Treatment Program and currently has a position at Community Mental Health Services of Medina in Ohio.     

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New York Advocates See Task Force Report as Call for Treating Troubled Youths Insurance Companies Still Control Access to Treatment Via Medical Management New Directions for SAMHSA Under Health Reform and Hyde How to Use the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey for 2009 Highlights from the MTF Survey, 2009 Briefly Noted State News Call for Presentations Coming up     

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Can Electronic Medical Records and Patient Confidentiality Coexist? Latest Drug Court RFAs Reflect Broader Programs, Tough Requirements Non‐Fatal Opioid Overdoses in Pain Patients Linked to High Doses Whither Health Reform and Parity? HHS Announces TANF Funds Can be Used for Substance Use Treatment Maine's First Report Card From Substance Abuse Commission: C Briefly Noted Names in the News Coming up     

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Feds Plan to Use NOMS for Quality Improvement, not Penalties or Incentives ‘HANDS Protocol’ for Alcoholism Treatment to be Tested in Controlled Clinical Trial Not all States Report Measures NOMS Encompasses Access to Recovery Denial of Medical Care to Addicts and Recovering Addicts Topiramate Holds Promise for Cocaine, Alcohol and Opiates A Third of 21‐25‐Year‐Old Drivers Drank or Used Drugs in First Year Briefly Noted Coming Up…     

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AAP Recommends Pediatricians Use SBIRT for All Adolescent Patients Vt. Program Targets Mothers‐to‐Be to Address Opiate Treatment Gap CRAFFT Screen IC&RC Approves New Peer Recovery Credential IC&RC Advisory Council ASAM and NAADAC Affirm Opposition to Medical Marijuana Iowa's Problems Include Rx Abuse, K2, Spice, Bath Salts Briefly Noted In the States Pharma News Coming up     

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Schick Shadel Making a Comeback in New Era of Medicine‐Based Treatment State Grant Restores Bed Capacity at Indiana Community‐Based Center ASAM Admits Error in Omitting NIAAA in Definition Publicity Addiction Medicine a Medical Specialty? Honoring Betty Ford's Vision Pay Per Click: Using Search Engine Marketing to Attract Patients Letter to the Editor Briefly Noted In the States Resources Names in the News Coming up     

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Recovery Support Included in SAMHSA's Final Strategic Initiatives Center's Ability to Go Smoke‐Free Bodes Well for Others in Utah ASAM Paper Outlines Reasons for Banning ‘Medical Marijuana’ Treatment and Criminal Justice Alternatives Face Cuts in Texas NIAAA, Mindful of Merger, Speaks Out on Alcohol's Harmful Effects Prevalence and Population Estimates of Past‐Year Substance Use among Users: U.S. Briefly Noted In the States Resources Coming up     

Discharge planning with pathological gamblers: An ongoing process

Criteria for a diagnosis of pathological gambling include gambling related disruption or damage in legal, financial, family, vocational and personal areas. Therefore, discharge planning with a pathological gambler is much more than a placement problem at the end of an inpatient treatment stay. In fact, discharge planning incorporates and continues a holistic treatment approach at the Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center, Brecksville Gambling Treatment Program. This paper discusses all areas of the gambler's life which have been disrupted and need to be considered when working on a discharge and recovery plan.     

‘Secret shopper’ study finds many barriers to OUD treatment

Treatment programs that don't accept insurance, but only cash, create a barrier for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, according to a study by Stephen Patrick, M.D., and colleagues, many of whom are from the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. And despite the fact that pregnant women with OUD are a priority population for treatment due to the risks to the fetus of continued opioid abuse, nonpregnant women are more likely than pregnant women to be given an appointment for treatment with a buprenorphine‐waivered clinician.