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Creating a Palliative Care Clinic for Patients with Cancer Pain and Substance Use Disorder

CAPC

An intervention founded on harm reduction principles in collaboration with addiction psychiatry for cancer-related pain.

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April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Here are resources for social workers

Social Work Blog

They also provide education around potential harm due to misuse and use treatment modalities that are flexible and work for both harm reduction and abstinence. Assessment and interventions of risky alcohol use is extremely important amongst girls and women. Alcohol Use in the United States. Updated March 2022.

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Native Americans and Opioid Addiction: Understanding the Problem

Relias

Funding and availability are a dual challenge To illustrate this double dilemma, consider that over 200 facilities provided behavioral health services to Native Americans, but only 34 of those (from eight IHS areas) received funding through IHS’s Community Opioid Intervention Pilot Projects (COIPP) award program.