Sentences with phrase «treatment programs»

McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a member of Partners HealthCare, has signed a five - year contract with the National Rehabilitation Center (NRC) in Abu Dhabi to provide consultation services that will allow the NRC to offer expanded substance abuse treatment programs...

In this capacity, she provided technical assistance and strategic advice on the development of laboratory plans and systems to support national HIV / AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs in the Initiative's partner countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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In this capacity he oversees an array of short - and long - term treatment programs that serve adults and adolescents suffering from mood and psychotic disorders, complex personality disorders, eating disorders, and substance use disorders.

Informed by these experiences, she developed a course on multidisciplinary approaches to support HIV / AIDS care and treatment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa that is offered to Brown undergraduates and Master's degree students.

For many years, McLean has sought feedback from patients about the care they receive on inpatient units and in residential treatment programs.

The strength of our research and treatment programs was recognized early on by the National Cancer Institute, becoming one of the first to earn comprehensive cancer center status and recognition as a «Center of Excellence.»

Genomic data about individuals and groups might be consulted during disease outbreaks, in planning for public health programs, or in developing new or assessing existing public health policies; for instance, where are the hotspots for infection (and are these associated with specific pathogen or host genomics), where should vaccines be deployed most urgently, which therapies should be offered to which genomic populations, and where should treatment programs, isolation policies or public health control programs be implemented to halt the spread of infections?

As part of the NYU Langone Health System, NYU Lutheran physicians work in collaboration with the world - renowned Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, among the largest treatment programs of its kind in the United States.

Her research is focused on understanding factors that contribute to the development of obesity and implementing effective prevention and treatment programs for childhood obesity in underserved populations.

A new report says HIV / AIDS prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach boys.

In fact, the researchers say, the loss of wildlife habitat in Africa — and not human treatment programs — could be the main reason that sleeping sickness disease, usually called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is now on the retreat.

«We tend not to think of animals in these kinds of disease - treatment programs, which is such a human - centric approach.

U.S. guidelines recommend weight gain of about 1 to 3 pounds per week, and many treatment programs may have low rates of weight gain, in part because of safety concerns about faster refeeding, Redgrave says.

These statistics are alarming, the authors of the new paper point out, considering that the prevalence of ARFID has been estimated at 3.2 percent in the general population and from 14 to 22.5 percent among children in pediatric treatment programs for any kind of eating disorder.

Although the three WTC treatment programs have been praised by Mayor Bloomberg's office, Reibman explained to me that the WTC treatment programs were initiated by private organizations.

«RNA sequence could help doctors to tailor unique prostate cancer treatment programs.»

The authors conclude: «In the absence of multi-intervention randomized clinical or observational trials, a mathematical HIV epidemic model provides useful insights about the aggregate benefit of implementing a portfolio of biomedical, diagnostic and treatment programs.

«Our studies highlight the need for college prevention and treatment programs to focus efforts on sexual, gender, racial and ethnic minority groups.»

Self - concept might be an important aspect to consider when implementing treatment programs to improve the mental health of youth who are hospitalized.

Clinton also emphasized that the AIDS epidemic is coming back in the United States, particularly among black men who have sex with men, and that state spending on AIDS treatment programs here have been cut.

Instead it urges states, regulators and public health agencies to work toward universal access to evidence - based interventions for substance abuse, including treatment programs and full coverage of medications approved to fight addiction.

Many of the adults have histories of mental health problems and are being placed in court - based treatment programs, where government officials and social workers tend to think that they are more likely to experience success compared to their younger counterparts.

However, new research by Kelli Canada, assistant professor in the University of Missouri School of Social Work, shows that although mental health court participants older than 50 adhere to treatment programs better than younger adults, they are just as likely to be reincarcerated or relapse into criminal behavior.

Mental health courts are intensive treatment programs designed to address individuals» underlying mental problems that contribute to their criminal behaviors.

Charged with providing access to treatment programs, SAMHSA is encouraging medication - assisted therapy through the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant as well as regulatory oversight of medications used to treat opioid addiction.

An interim treatment can get people medication sooner: As the opioid crisis continues to escalate, the number of people who need treatment for their dependency on heroin or prescription pain killers far exceeds the capacity of available treatment programs.

At the same time, arrests for marijuana use / possession and admissions to substance use disorder treatment programs have decreased.

«Our findings suggest that treatment attendance is very important for these individuals and treatment programs should include interventions that are likely to decrease substance abuse, as this may provide the additional benefit of reducing the risk of later aggression among dual - diagnosis patients,» Bradizza says.

The physician's office is one place to expose violence that all too often goes on behind closed doors, but until more effective treatment programs are designed, many men and women will still live in fear.

The results agree with an earlier review led by Guydish of smoking addiction treatment programs in the U.S..

People in addiction treatment programs around the world use tobacco at two to three times the rate of people who are not being treated for addiction, according to a review of research studies from 20 countries other than the United States.

In Ontario, admissions to publicly funded treatment programs for opioid - related problems doubled from 2004 to 2013, from 8,799 to 18,232.

«More access to opioid treatment programs needed in Southeast, says study.»

But there are only about 1,200 opioid treatment programs in the U.S. — far too few to meet the demand.

«In 2012, only Fulton County in Georgia had any opioid treatment programs that accepted Medicaid insurance,» Abraham said.

Treatment programs could return these people to society.

Another problem is the continued stigmatization of addiction, which contributes to lawmakers, criminal justice system officials and insurers underfunding and underutilizing prevention and medical treatment programs.

In many of the counties, there aren't any treatment programs, and where there are programs, they are more likely to be run by for - profit providers, the majority of which do not accept Medicaid.

The researchers analyzed data from the 2012 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services to compare county - level distributions of opioid use disorder rates with opioid treatment programs that accept Medicaid.

The committee recommended that states — with assistance from relevant federal agencies, particularly the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — provide universal access to evidence - based treatment for opioid use disorder in a variety of settings, including hospitals, criminal justice settings, and substance - use treatment programs.

Mental health courts (MHCs) are county - level courts designed to divert offenders with mental health problems from jail, instead referring them to community - based treatment programs.

Lead author Nathan Call, PhD, director of Severe Behavior Programs at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, says his team's work is aimed at designing treatment programs that families can stick to, and helping them do so. Call's co-authors were biostatisticians Scott Gillespie and Courtney McCracken, PhD in the Department of Pediatrics, Mindy Scheithauer at Marcus Autism Center, and Andrea Reavis, now at Trumpet Behavioral Health.

Relapses are the reason most treatment programs fail, he says, because a single, brief exposure to a disavowed drug ignites a compulsion in addicts more powerful than that engendered by continual use.

Call says that in response to signs of delay discounting, clinicians may be able to modify treatment programs to emphasize smaller, but more immediate treatment successes, or assign additional support resources if necessary.

More people need access to treatment programs that offer a combination of psychotherapy and anti-addiction medications, the panelists said.

Some addicts enter drug treatment programs after being referred by a court following an arrest for possessing drugs or for committing a crime to support their addictions.

He also supervises international care and treatment programs under The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), according to the University of Maryland's Web site.

In a change from longstanding practice, the CMS recently began suppressing substance abuse - related claims in the Medicare and Medicaid Research Identifiable Files to comply with a 1987 federal regulation barring third party payers from releasing information from federally funded substance abuse treatment programs without patient consent.

Two - thirds of respondents say their community is not doing enough to make treatment programs accessible and affordable or to find improved methods of treating addiction.