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Emotional Abuse: It’s A bigger Problem Than You Think October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Not all abusive relationships involve physical violence.

Sometimes the person seeking treatment for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) is almost guaranteed to fail in an outpatient setting because of the environment they must return to everyday. Other family members are using, selling (both) and may be openly hostile to the person in treatment. Sometimes the entire neighborhood is a trigger to return to using. Residential treatment can be the safe-haven to help someone establish a solid base of abstinence and early recovery. The laws limiting residential treatment for medicaid recipients to 16 beds or less has got to change.

How Much Residential Addiction Treatment Capacity Do We Need? | OPEN MINDS Monica E. Oss The opioid epidemic has gotten a lot of attention both within the behavioral health community, but also by the general public — The Obamacare Repeal ‘Could Be A Disaster’ For States Fighting The Opioid Epidemic and Opioid Addiction – The Crisis, The Impact & The Responses. And health p...

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but
from doing something worthwhile."

--Sir Wilfred Grenfell

If you're a recovering nurse or other health care professional, please consider joining Health Care Professionals in Recovery online support group. Follow this link for more information and to request membership:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/recoveringhcps/

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