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A Profession's Journey toward Wellness...
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Four years ago, as I began my term as AANA Region 2 director, our profession faced many challenges. Our members, elected leaders, and staff had recently endured a long and difficult battle to secure the opportunity for individual states to opt out of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) requirement for physician supervision of nurse anesthetists. Just a month earlier, President Rodney Lester, CRNA, PhD, had marshaled AANA resources to manage the fallout from the news that a ...
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Assessing substance abuse problems in deaf and hard of hearing individuals
American Annals of the Deaf
; Professionals who provide services to deaf and hard of hearing individuals may encounter situations related to abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Getting access to an agency that can provide an appropriate chemical dependency assessment for a deaf or hard of hearing person is difficult because there
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Denial: reports of its death are premature. (Editorial)
Behavioral Health Management
; Although I heartily disagree with Dr. Michael J. Taleff's assertion that the concept of denial should be eliminated in the field of addictions,(1) I want to thank him for addressing an issue which has had too little attention. In reality, denial and its management are the sine qua non of chemical
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Battling workplace drug use; Employers confronting the costs of chemical dependency.(Brief Article)
Business Insurance
; NEW YORK--Although chemical dependency is an insidious problem in the workplace, sapping both money and time from employers, most companies refuse to confront the problem and instead do very little about it. ``There is a silent killer in our midst said Fred Hafer, chairman, president and CEO of GPU
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BSU Hosts 16th Annual Minnesota Indian Institute On Alcohol And Drug
Ojibwe News, The
; Ojibwe News, The 06-20-1997 BSU Hosts 16th Annual Minnesota Indian Institute On Alcohol And Drug Studies This year's Minnesota Indian Institute ...
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Nashville firm signed to run Huron detox unit. (Koala Centers; Meridia Huron Hospital)
Crain's Cleveland Business
; Nashville firm signed to run Huron detox unit In hopes of improving 44% occupancy rate at which its chemical dependency treatment program ran last year, Meridia Huron Hospital has contracted with Koala Centers, a firm which manages chemical dependency programs nationwide. Chris Whisenant, Koala
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Quality chemical dependency treatment in an era of cost containment: clinical guidelines for practitioners.
Health and Social Work
; ... of chemical dependency and recovery and to achieve full participation in the growing managed health care arena. A recent NASW News article called for more integration of alcohol and drug abuse material into existing courses in current social work schools ...
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A suggestion for conceptualizing dual diagnosis: a systematic analysis to help cut through the confusion and mismanagement.
Behavioral Health Management
; Patients suffering from dual diagnosis are difficult to treat. Surveys of relapse-prone chemical dependency patients show that over 85% of them have a coexisting personality or mental disorder. Failure to diagnose chemical dependency in psychiatric patients is a common cause of treatment failure.
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Chemical dependency; Equality for alcoholics and addicts.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; If ever you can't make it to work in the morning because of agonizing back pain, you can count on your health plan to cover the treatment that will let you return to your desk. But if the ailment keeping you from doing your job well is alcoholism or drug addiction, you might be out of luck. Many
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Celebrating 25 years of Sobriety
Circle, The
; Circle, The 12-31-1998 Celebrating 25 years of Sobriety Juel Fairbanks Sr., an Ojibwe from Cass Lake, was an iron worker who had his own issues with the bottle. But on December 4th, his namesake, The Juel Fairbanks Chemical Dependency Services, celebrated its 25th year of serving the American
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A cluster analytic study of clinical orientations among chemical dependency counselors. (Research).(Statistical Data Included)
Journal of Counseling and Development
; In the United States, the gap between practice and research in the addictions field has persisted or possibly expanded during the 1990s (Backer, David, & Soucy, 1995; Lamb, Greenlick, & McCarty, 1998). Despite calls for new views on the nature of addiction (Leshner, 1997), broad-spectrum
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