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Prevention's role in addressing youth marijuana use
Counselor Magazine
On Prevention Day 2019, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Assistant Secretary Elinore F. McCance-Katz declared that, “Marijuana is the most widely used drug in the United States.” For the professionals who work in the prevention and treatment fields, this is not a surprising or shocking statement.
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Prevention: Creating positive change that lasts
Counselor Magazine
Prevention works! However, prevention’s only proof of value is when the data shows change is moving in the right direction. The strategic prevention framework (SPF) used in prevention practice offers a map to a systemic, data-driven process for community-level change.
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Behavioral Health Peer Support Training
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March 16-26, 2021
A Behavioral Health Peer Support Specialist promotes recovery and removes barriers and obstacles to recovery, serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recovery from an addiction to alcohol and or other drugs. There are many other titles that are used for this sought after position. What distinguishes a peer support specialist from other peer positions is that we stay in the lane of providing support for people in recovery from an addition to alcohol and or other drugs.
This training satisfies education requirements for the Certified Mental Health Peer Credential and SUD Peer Recovery Mentor Credential.
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Why do we need overdose reversal drugs on college campuses? Do college students even do drugs?
ARCC
The U.S. has faced an opioid crisis for more than 20 years, and as the hospitalization and opioid related death rate for college-age students continues to rise. It is important now more than ever that opioid reversal drugs become more readily available. As Young People in Recovery Chapter Lead Jesse Haner says, “With today’s rise of opioid use especially in the younger generation, to not be prepared would be the real crime. The worst thing we can say is this could have been prevented.”
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Jobs in addiction and behavioral health
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Weekly Director Poll
Counselor Magazine
The Director Poll and Clinician Check-Ins are free, first-of-their-kind surveys. They’re already connecting program leaders and clinicians nationwide — helping them adapt to the new needs emerging weekly in our industry.
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An unstable working life affects the future mental health of young people
MedicalXpress
A new study reveals that a precarious, unstable initiation by young people to working life is associated with poorer future mental health. The study was conducted by researchers from the Center for Research in Occupational Health (CISAL, a joint group of UPF and the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) in Barcelona, Spain. Amaya Ayala-Garcia, Laura Serra and Mònica Ubalde-López are the authors of the study, which has been published in the journal BMJ Open.
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Basic needs come first
SLATE
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their jobs, slid further into poverty and debt, are facing homelessness, and have been cut off from their social support networks. Most are not developing a diagnosable mental illness, but their mental health is definitely worsening.
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Drug overdose deaths surge among Black Americans during pandemic
NPR
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say fatal drug overdoses nationwide have surged roughly 20% during the pandemic, killing more than 83,000 people in 2020. While the CDC doesn't track overdose deaths by race, a growing body of research suggests Black Americans have suffered the heaviest toll.
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Rise in anti-Asian American hate crimes may lead to mental health crisis
ABC News
Crisanna Tang, a New York-based health care worker, was just on her way to work.
"A man got on the train without a mask," said Tang, a 31-year-old Chinese American born in New Jersey and raised in Port St. Lucie, Florida, "and he sits across from me. He started saying, 'Go back to China,' and started spitting all over me, and said all these things about Chinese people causing the virus."
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