Despite Obamacare, a gaping hole in addiction treatment
More than 23 million Americans needed treatment for an alcohol or drug problem in 2012 but only 11% received it, according to estimates from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Under the decades-old …
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Shooting Unfairly Links Violence With Mental Illness — Again
The best predictor of future violence is whether a person with a psychiatric illness has been arrested or acted violently in the past. And people with substance abuse problems, on top of mental illness, are also at a greater risk of committing violence …
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California Psychiatrist Helps Develop Integrated Substance Abuse Care
For more than two decades, Robert Cabaj, M.D., has witnessed the enormous toll that substance abuse exacts on overall health among patients in both primary care and public mental health settings. He has also seen the effect that fragmentation of …
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