Addressing Substance Abuse With CME (Part 1 of 2)

Addressing Substance Abuse with CME (Part 1 of 2) – First part of discussion between Bertha Madras, former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and ACCME Chief Executive, Murray Kopelow regarding CME approaches to address substance abuse. (Part 1 of 2, Recorded July 2008) Visit these resources for more information: – For more information about the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, visit www.ondcp.gov. – For an overview of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s “Screening and Brief Intervention for Referral to Treatment” (SBIRT) program, visit http For more information, please visit www.accme.org

This Valentine's Day, Show Your Love! End Violence Against Women and Girls

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One in every three women and girls globally will be raped or beaten in their lifetimes, and data increasingly shows a correlation between violence, trauma, and negative health outcomes for women, including HIV. For women living with HIV, recent trauma …
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How to beat inequality

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“In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children…studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own.” He's right. …… Head Start …
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Addiction and Gambling and Other Peccadillos

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Thus substance abuse and gambling both include a higher frequency of a variant of the dopamine receptor. Both behaviours tend to co-occur along with other co-morbid mental health disorders with very low rates of treatment seeking and high rates of drop …
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