Hazelden launches iPhone app for people in recovery
Hazelden launches iPhone app for people in recovery
A new iPhone application designed as an interactive recovery support tool for the millions of Americans who are in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs has been released by Hazelden.
Called the Mobile MORE Field Guide to Life, the Hazelden iPhone app, which is accessible to the entire sober community through the iTunes App Store, is based on MORE (My Ongoing Recovery Experience), Hazelden’s award-winning evidence-based web program of personalized continuing care that is provided exclusively to Hazelden’s clients.
Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, the new Field Guide to Life app creates a supportive bridge between a recovering addict’s treatment and the challenges of the world outside of addiction treatment. Hazelden’s Field Guide to Life app comes in three volumes: “The Basics,” “Owning It” and “The New You!”
In working through each of the volumes, users progress through the stages of recovery over the course of one year. Hazelden designed the app for the entire spectrum of the sober community, from people
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Government Publishes Guide on Drug Abuse Treatment
By Join Together Staff | January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment | Filed in Addiction, Drugs, Government & Treatment
NIDA guide 1-23-12
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has published a free guide to choosing a drug abuse treatment program. “Seeking Drug Abuse Treatment: Know What to Ask” recommends questions that individuals and families who are struggling with addiction should ask to help them make an informed choice.
“Treatment options can vary considerably, and families often don’t know where to begin,” NIDA Director Nora Volkow said in a news release. “This booklet highlights the treatment components that research has shown are critical for success, to help people make an informed choice during a very stressful time.”
Many recent scientific advances have changed addiction treatment, but not all treatment centers have kept up with these changes, according to the Los Angeles Times. The guide recommends asking the following questions:
• Does the program use treatments backed by scientific evidence?
• Does the program tailor treatment to the needs of each patient?
• Does the program adapt treatment as patients’ needs change?
• Is the duration of treatment sufficient?
• How do 12-step or similar recovery programs fit into drug addiction treatment?
The guide provides information on medications, evidence-based behavior therapies, the realities of relapse, and the role of community-level support.
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Next Page »Many States Receive Failing Grades in Lung Association Report on Anti-Tobacco Efforts | The Partnership at Drugfree.org
By Join Together Staff | January 19, 2012 |
(http://www NULL.drugfree NULL.org/join-together/prevention/many-states-receive-failing-grades-in-lung-association-report-on-anti-tobacco-efforts?utm_source=Join+Together+Daily&utm_campaign=6de209870e-JT_Daily_News_Many_States&utm_medium=email)Many states received failing grades on the latest American Lung Association report card rating tobacco control efforts. Forty-three states and the District of Columbia earned an “F” for funding smoking-prevention programs at less than half the levels recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Alaska was the only state that funded tobacco programs at the CDC’s recommended levels, Bloomberg Businessweek (http://www NULL.businessweek NULL.com/news/2012-01-19/tobacco-policies-abysmal-in-u-s-states-lung-association-says NULL.html) reports. Overall, states’ collective spending on anti-smoking programs dropped 11 percent last year, and only Vermont and Connecticut raised cigarette taxes. Eight states rejected cigarette tax proposals, while New Hampshire decreased its cigarette tax 10 cents per pack, according to the report, the State of Tobacco Control.
“At a time when our country is trying to get a handle on health-care spending, this is an enormous expense that could be avoided by investing in effective tobacco-prevention and cessation programs and policies,” said American Lung Association (http://www NULL.stateoftobaccocontrol NULL.org/) President and Chief Executive Officer, Charles Connor.
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Next Page »Medical News: Texting May Turn Teens Off Alcohol
Being in touch with teens via text about their drinking habits may make them put down the bottle, researchers found.
Teens identified as hazardous drinkers in an assessment group had a median of seven weeks (interquartile range three to nine weeks) with a heavy drinking day (≥four drinks for women; ≥five drinks for men) compared with a median of two weeks (IQR one to seven weeks) in an intervention group who set goals to lessen their alcohol intake through support via text messaging, Brian Suffoletto, MD, of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues reported online in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
“When we used text-messaging to collect drinking data and to offer immediate feedback and support to young adults discharged from the emergency department, they drank less,” Suffoletto said in a statement.
Being in touch with teens via text about their drinking habits may make them put down the bottle.
Within the intervention group, those who had heavy drinking days, but agreed to set a goal to diminish their intake, ended up drinking heavily again only 36% of the time the following week, compared with 63% of the time for those who didn’t set goals.
Some work has shown that text messaging can be helpful for providing feedback to patients and for potentially changing behaviors, the researchers said. At the same time, they said, emergency departments provide an opportunity to screen youths for risky drinking behaviors.
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Next Page »CDC Report on Prescription Painkiller Overdose is a Call To Action | The Partnership at Drugfree.org
At the CDC, we deal with the numbers and statistics affecting the public’s health every day. I’ve worked here for most of my career, and rarely do these numbers reveal the full and tragic story they actually represent. The CDC’s report this week on prescription painkiller overdoses is one of these rare instances, confirming a story many of us have heard in communities across America.
Prescription painkillers (drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone) killed nearly 15,000 people in 2008—one person every forty minutes. These were husbands and sons, mothers and daughters, often struggling with addiction for months or years before losing their lives. And the problem has never been worse. For every person who died of a prescription painkiller overdose in 1999, nearly four died in 2008. We are in the midst of an epidemic.
But the number of deaths isn’t the whole story. This sharp rise in prescription painkiller overdoses parallels a similarly large increase in painkiller sales. Four times as many prescription painkillers were sold in the U.S. last year than in 1999.
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State Budget Cuts Devastating
DSHS Secretary Susan Dreyfus held stakeholders meetings about the affect of proposed budget cuts in September and October. Reports about these meetings were similar.
Ms. Dreyfus reported that the state government now faces “one of its hardest moments since the Great Depression” and detailed the choice points and considerations that were given to department heads.
Despite making more than $2.2 billion in cuts to social services in the past two years, she reported that, “additional reductions are inevitable.”
Reactions from those who serve the most vulnerable populations in the state might have been summed up by Sandi Ando of the National Alliance on Mental Illness for Washington and Spokane. “People will die,” she said.
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In response to the governors directive, DBHR previously submitted a budget cut proposal that will virtually eliminate substance abuse treatment services for adults in Washington.
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Spokane County Community Services estimated a 74% reduction in client substance abuse services based on the 2011-2013 Budget Reduction Decision Package submitted to the governor by DBHR on September 23, 2011.
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On October 27 Governor Gregoire released a budget reduction document that lists the following chemical dependency items she has “tentatively chosen to include” in her 2012 supplemental budget proposal in November:
Reduce chemical dependency services $14.5 million
Reduces out-patient and detoxification chemical dependency services for 11,000 low-income clients.
Eliminate Disability Lifeline and ADATSA $5.2 million
Terminates the Disability Lifeline and ADATSA (Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment and Services Act) medical programs, affecting 15,000 clients who receive chemical dependency services.
Eliminate long-term residential and recovery house services $2.7 million
Ends funding for long-term residential services in excess of 90 days for 223 clients who are chronically chemically dependent or disabled.
Terminates funding for five recovery houses, which serve 299 clients after they have finished their residential treatment program.
Close Pioneer Center East $2.1 million
Halts funding for this Spokane chemical dependency treatment facility that annually serves 283 acute-care clients.
Convert funding to county block grant $2.1 million
Introduces flexibility for funding chemical dependency services, which will be distributed to counties
in a block grant to maximize the efficient and flexible use of resources.
Capture Criminal Justice Treatment Account underexpenditure $2.1 million
Uses underspent Criminal Justice Treatment Account funds to offset state chemical dependency costs for drug courts.
Limit detoxification visits $1.9 million
Reduces the number of admissions to two per year, which will eliminate 2,020 visits annually.
Limit chemical dependency assessments $188,000
Reduces the number of assessments to two per year, which will eliminate 251 assessments annually.
New Cigarette Labels Will Graphically Illustrate Consequences of Smoking | The Partnership at Drugfree.org
New cigarette labels mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will carry graphic images of the consequences of smoking, including diseased lungs and rotting teeth, the Boston Herald reports.
The new labels are a result of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gave the FDA authority to regulate the content, marketing and sale of tobacco products. The law requires the FDA to issue final regulations requiring color graphics illustrating the ugly consequences of smoking by June 22, 2011.
The FDA will require that the disturbing pictures cover at least half of the front and the back of a cigarette package by October 2012. The FDA will also require that the images take up to at least 20 percent of each cigarette ad.
To see examples of the new cigarette label warnings, visit the FDA website.
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Next Page »Medical News: Vodka, Malt Liquor Most Likely to Buy Trip to ED – in Meeting Coverage, APHA from MedPage Today
WASHINGTON — Vodka and malt beverages were the forms of alcohol most likely to have been consumed by patients who wound up at the emergency department seeking treatment for an injury, according to a small study.
In addition, more men than women presented to the ED with injuries after drinking (69% versus 31%), according to the study presented at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting.
Men were also more likely than women to report drinking beer. However, women were more likely to have consumed spirits, wine, champagne, or flavored malt beverages, said lead author David Jernigan, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Nearly a third of injury-related visits to emergency departments are alcohol-related, said Jernigan, who is director of the institution’s Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth.
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