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Report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services Regarding the Efforts of State Government to Address the Issue of Drug Overdose

Author : Kimberly Johnson

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 35,71 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Drug addiction

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"The Office of Substance Abuse (OSA) became aware of a growing trend in the abuse of prescription narcotics in early 2000. This trend was particularly evident in Washington and Penobscot Counties at that time and OSA responded by funding an opiate treatment program in Bangor, which was delayed in opening until the following year due to community opposition. OSA also funded the development of a community plan and increased treatment in Washington County. In FY 2001 the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) requested and received state funding for an additional officer to be located in Washington County, though the position was never filled due to subsequent budget cuts. Working with the Substance Abuse Services Commission, OSA gathered information regarding abuse of prescription drugs and published the first comprehensive look at the issue in January 2002. By this time the problem had spread to affect all of coastal Maine and the abuse of heroin had begun to rise as well. The report, Oxycontin: Maine's Newest Epidemic made five recommendations."--page 2



Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 483 pages

File Size : 50,28 MB

Release : 2017-09-28

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309459575

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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.





Communities in Action

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 583 pages

File Size : 50,3 MB

Release : 2017-04-27

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.



Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs

Author : Institute of Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 16,17 MB

Release : 1988-02-01

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309038324

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There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.



Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions

Author : Institute of Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 528 pages

File Size : 19,45 MB

Release : 2006-03-29

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309133661

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Each year, more than 33 million Americans receive health care for mental or substance-use conditions, or both. Together, mental and substance-use illnesses are the leading cause of death and disability for women, the highest for men ages 15-44, and the second highest for all men. Effective treatments exist, but services are frequently fragmented and, as with general health care, there are barriers that prevent many from receiving these treatments as designed or at all. The consequences of this are seriousâ€"for these individuals and their families; their employers and the workforce; for the nation's economy; as well as the education, welfare, and justice systems. Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions examines the distinctive characteristics of health care for mental and substance-use conditions, including payment, benefit coverage, and regulatory issues, as well as health care organization and delivery issues. This new volume in the Quality Chasm series puts forth an agenda for improving the quality of this care based on this analysis. Patients and their families, primary health care providers, specialty mental health and substance-use treatment providers, health care organizations, health plans, purchasers of group health care, and all involved in health care for mental and substanceâ€"use conditions will benefit from this guide to achieving better care.



Crossing the Quality Chasm

Author : Institute of Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 29,58 MB

Release : 2001-07-19

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309132967

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Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.



Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act

Author : American Dental Association

Publisher : American Dental Association

Page : 60 pages

File Size : 34,91 MB

Release : 2017-05-24

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1941807712

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Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This brief guide explains Section 1557 in more detail and what your practice needs to do to meet the requirements of this federal law. Includes sample notices of nondiscrimination, as well as taglines translated for the top 15 languages by state.