Over 21 million Americans are suffering from substance use disorders and many more are at risk. If you are struggling or worried about a loved one, there are resources that can help you. If your organization serves individuals who struggle with addiction and substance use disorders, these resources will help you stay informed and equip you with resources to […]
Substance Abuse Clinic
Facilitating Health Communication with Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Populations
The increasingly diverse ethnic composition of the United States population has created a profound and ongoing demographic shift, and public health and health care organizations face many challenges as they move to address and adapt to this change. To better understand how the public health and health care communities can meet the challenges of serving […]
Recovery Place Seattle at Beacon Hill: Detox Facility Designed to Help Homeless and Low-income Populations
King County is helping open a new detox facility that will offer integrated treatment for mental health and substance-use disorder – including opioid addiction – that prioritizes bed space for people who are homeless. The facility located in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will offer 33 detox beds and 40 intensive inpatient treatment beds. It will […]
Recommendations to provide gender-affirmation treatment for transgender individuals
The Endocrine Society issued a Clinical Practice Guideline on the treatment for gender-dysphoric/gender-incongruent people, commonly referred to as transgender, to develop the physical characteristics of the affirmed gender. The guideline, entitled “Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline,” was published online and will appear in the November 2017 print issue of […]
Prevent Medicine Abuse Toolkit
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month launches in October. Teenagers and adults are abusing products such as over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine. CADCA’s Online Rx Abuse Prevention Toolkit contains facts, strategies and tools to prevent and reduce teen Rx medicine abuse in your community. This newly revised toolkit is based on CADCA’s Seven Strategies for Effective Community Change. […]
Advancing Best Practices in Behavioral Health for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Boys and Men
A meeting held by SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity (OBHE) in 2015 focused on understanding behavioral health issues related to men and boys of color – namely Black/African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) – across the United States. At the convening, leaders of the AANHPI community […]