...As a result of the prevalence of trauma histories in incarcerated individuals, especially women, being widely known, the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provided grants to Maryland’s Department of Mental Hygiene, Maryland Correctional Administrators Association, local detention centers, and core service agencies to implement a trauma-based intervention strictly for women. This intervention is Trauma, Addiction, Mental Health, and Recovery, otherwise known as TAMAR. The TAMAR program targets women during the intake process at detention centers where a trained trauma specialist provides the women with a brief assessment and brochure about the program. Participation in the program is explained to all of the women,...
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...Human Resources Management Approach to SAMHSA Strategic Initiatives Alena De la cruz Saint Leo University Professor McCabe October 25, 2014 The human resources department plays an important role when it comes down to strategic planning. To illustrate this form of planning is a vital component in strategic human resource management. The human resource department must demonstrate a plan, which is the strategy which is intended to accomplish the goal of the organization over time. This is the way the organization functions. When the human resource department is on the same page as the organization this directly links the two together and guide them on a straight path of success while meeting the mission of the organization. Decision making is implemented through the human resource department on behalf of the organization by way of setting policies, careful planning and daily practices. In order for the organization to meet their mission and goals, the organization and human resource department must be on the same page with the business strategy of the organization culture in mind. “The goals of organizations differ within and among departments. All departments probably have goals that include employee satisfaction, survival, and adaptability to change” (Ivancevich & Konopaske, 2013). In order for this approach to work the plan must relate to the present and future critical needs of the organization...
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...Substance Abuse Prevention Programs Julie Valpuesta Grand Canyon University April 9, 2014 Substance Abuse Prevention Programs There are many substance abuse prevention programs in America. The Army Substance Abuse Prevention, Partnership for a Drug-Free NC and SAMHSA are three of them listed in this paper. They all have goals, funding, marketing, government policies and standards to which they have to adhere to. They all have components that work, problems and a certain level of effectiveness. The follow is an overview of these three agencies and how they work. Goals and Method of Operation First, we have Army Substance Abuse Prevention. The Army strives to ensure that its soldiers are properly treated when it comes to substance abuse. Their goals consist of “Increase individual fitness and overall unit readiness. Provide services which are proactive and responsive to the needs of the Army´s workforce and emphasize alcohol and other drug abuse deterrence, prevention, education, and rehabilitation. Implement alcohol and other drug risk reduction and prevention strategies that respond to potential problems before they jeopardize readiness, productivity, and careers. Restore to duty those substance-impaired Soldiers who have the potential for continued military Service. Provide effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and education at all levels of command, and encourage commanders to provide alcohol and drug-free leisure activities. Ensure all personnel assigned...
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...Summary of Historical Trauma BSHS345 June 14, 2014 Chelie Safeels The Native Americans have faced extreme historical trauma for over five hundred years. This includes physical (death due to no immunity to European diseases), Emotional, Social and spiritual genocide. From 1492 when Christopher Columbus came to American, to the Spanish Conquistadors, The puritans and all those who came later to displace the Native Americans, including the trail of tears, and in the end to be locked into barren reservations. Another tragedy is the lose of most of the reservation through the court system, because oil, gas and other minerals are found on the Sovereign land. The Native American have been required through the years to adapt to the American way of life and to abandon their native culture to live in a “White Man’s World” The term trauma is Greek in origin, meaning to physically wound, disturb or pierce the corporeal boundaries (Garland, 1998;Leydesdorffet al., 1999). Sources generally define trauma according to an acute event or insult against a person’s body or culture’s psyche/traditions A lot of pain and suffering our family has going through. A lot of things that have happened to the Native American which were unjust, that were cruel, that were down right murderous, but as a culture they have survived, but most of the culture is lost to history. My Aunt Dorothy Yellowtail, whose husband Chief Robert Yellowtail was the last full Blooded of the Crow...
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...Leading Change: A Plan for SAMHSA’s Roles and Actions Strategic Initiative #3: Military Families Lead: Kathryn Power, Director, Center for Mental Health Services Key Facts • Approximately 18.5 percent of service members returning from Iraq or Afghanistan have post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, and 19.5 percent report experiencing a traumatic brain injury (TBI) during deployment.48 Approximately 50 percent of returning service members who need treatment for mental health conditions seek it, but only slightly more than half who receive treatment receive adequate care.49 The Army suicide rate reached an all-time high in June 2010.50 In the 5 years from 2005 to 2009, more than 1,100 members of the Armed Forces took their own lives, an average of 1 suicide every 36 hours.51 In 2010, the Army’s suicide rate among active-duty soldiers dropped slightly (162 in 2009; 156 in 2010), but the number of suicides in the National Guard and Reserve increased by 55 percent (80 in 2009; 145 in 2010).52 More than half of the Army National Guard members who killed themselves in 2010 had never deployed.53 In 2007, 8 percent of soldiers in Afghanistan reported using alcohol during deployment, and 1.4 percent reported using illegal drugs/substances.54 Between 2004 and 2006, 7.1 percent of U.S. veterans met the criteria for a substance use disorder.55 Mental and substance use disorders caused more hospitalizations among U.S. troops in 2009 than any other cause.56 According to an...
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...Revolutionary War, The American Civil War, The Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, The Vietnam War and the ongoing War on Drugs. The term “War on Drugs” was first used during President Richard Nixon’s 1971 term, when he officially declared the war. The War on Drugs” continues today, although drug use has been consistent throughout the forty three year period of the war. All drug use has remained steady despite the militarization of the drug war as the data below will demonstrate. The research focuses on the change of drug use rate, cost and racial disparity. Drug use According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged twelve or older were current illicit drug users. The survey is the...
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...E P I DE M IC: R E SP ON DI NG T O A M ER ICA’ S PR E S CR I P T ION DRUG A BUSE CR I SI S 2 011 Background Prescription drug abuse is the Nation’s fastest-growing drug problem. While there has been a marked decrease in the use of some illegal drugs like cocaine, data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) show that nearly one-third of people aged 12 and over who used drugs for the first time in 2009 began by using a prescription drug non-medically.1 The same survey found that over 70 percent of people who abused prescription pain relievers got them from friends or relatives, while approximately 5 percent got them from a drug dealer or from the Internet.2 Additionally, the latest Monitoring the Future study—the Nation’s largest survey of drug use among young people—showed that prescription drugs are the second most-abused category of drugs after marijuana.3 In our military, illicit drug use increased from 5 percent to 12 percent among active duty service members over a three-year period from 2005 to 2008, primarily attributed to prescription drug abuse.4 Although a number of classes of prescription drugs are currently being abused, this action plan primarily focuses on the growing and often deadly problem of prescription opioid abuse. The number of prescrip tions filled for opioid pain relievers—some of the most powerful medications available—has increased dramatically in recent years. From 1997 to 2007, the milligram per person use of prescription...
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...It seems that almost monthly we are hearing of some sort of trauma crisis globally and nationally. The importance of Mental Health Responders cannot be understated. There exists an ongoing need for counselors trained to assist in times of crisis. CRITICAL INCIDENTS Incident #1 – Historical widespread trauma that affects an entire culture. These types of events are normally intense enough to influence generations of the culture (SAMHSA, 2014). Incident #2, Intimate Partner Violence, is an ongoing pattern of actual or threatened physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse. (SAMHSA, 2014). Incident #3, Mass trauma or disasters affect large numbers of people either directly or indirectly (SAMHSA, 2014). Similarities and Differences The most obvious...
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...Organizing Gene Frost Mgt/300 April 26, 2010 Kathy Maas Organizing Alpha Home is a nonprofit organization that assists women in recovering from chemical dependency as well as the fallout of emotional scarring, sexual abuse, and homelessness associated with addiction (Frost, 2010). Located in San Antonio, Texas the organization was founded by Hulene Dempsy in 1966. Alpha Home has grown from being able to house only 10 women to its current capacity of 47 (Alpha Home, 2009). To operate a nonprofit organization successfully requires relationships with similar organizations, knowledge of state regulations, and a keen empathy for the client. Understanding finance is also essential for the success of Alpha Home and often the facets of knowledge and finance are inseparable as they mutually exist. Alpha Home is successful in part because of its knowledge in developing relationships with other nonprofit organizations. Collaboration with other entities that provide services to the patient allows Alpha Home to conserve monies otherwise spent on similar services. Because the organization primarily treats indigent women, who in addition to substance abuse treatment require services such as mental health counseling, trauma counseling, HIV and AIDS testing with subsequent counseling and dental assistance. Partnerships with other agencies called a “memorandum of understanding” have proven to be necessary to meet the basic needs of the patients. According to Business Dictionary (2010)...
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...THE PATH TO TOBACCO ADDICTION STARTS AT VERY YOUNG AGES Lifetime smoking and other tobacco use almost always begins by the time kids graduate from high school.1 Young kids’ naïve experimentation frequently develops into regular smoking, which typically turns into a strong addiction—well before the age of 18—that can overpower the most well-intentioned efforts to quit. Any efforts to decrease future tobacco use levels among high school students, college-aged youths or adults must include a focus on reducing experimentation and regular tobacco use among teenagers and pre-teens. How Early Do Kids Try Smoking? Every day more than 2,800 kids under 18 try smoking for the first time.2 Though very little data about smoking is regularly collected for kids under 12, the peak years for first trying to smoke appear to be in the sixth and seventh grades (or between the ages of 11 and 13), with a considerable number starting even earlier.3 In 2013, nearly five percent of eighth grade students reported having had their first cigarette by the end of fifth grade (ages 10 to 11), and 14.8 percent had tried smoking by the end of eighth grade. More than one-fourth (28.7%) of twelfth grade students reported having used cigarettes by the end of tenth grade.4 A 2013 nationwide survey found that nearly one in ten high school students (9.3%) had smoked at least one whole cigarette before the age of 13.5 The 2014 nationwide Monitoring the Future Study reports that more than one out of every three twelfth...
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...BHS205 Lesson 8 Peer Support: The general term peer support has the same meaning in both mental health and substance abuse treatment. Peer support can be defined as the help and support that people with lived experience of a mental illness or a substance addiction are able to give to another. Recovery, whether from substance abuse or a mental illness, is a social process. Part of recovery is for the individual to reintegrate into the community and return to a normal social life. According to Mental Health America (MHA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), peer support is an essential element to the recovery process. People are often more willing to share their issues, concerns, hopes and dreams with a peer specialist than with clinical staff. Peer specialists have learned to recognize triggers and early warning signs, how to counteract the negative impact of stress and create plans to care for themselves. They are then able to pass these skills on to others who are in the position that they were once in themselves. Peer mental health support uses empathy and empowerment to help support and inspire an individual’s recovery. Peer support helps individuals suffering from mental illnesses feel less isolated and alone. A peer support specialist, for an individual with a mental illness, are often recovering from their own mental illness. This allows them to have a better understanding of what the individual they are helping is feeling and going...
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...known as opioids. Coincidentally, the opioid is not the only drug being abused and overly prescribed. Antidepressants, stimulants, and tranquilizers fall into this category; just to mention a few. The increase in prescriptions of these medications has been linked to the frequency of abuse (Chen et al., 2014). According to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the number of people abusing prescription medications in 2012 rose to 6.8 million users from 6.1 million users in 2011. The report also indicates that prescription drugs continue to be one of the most abused controlled substances, second only to marijuana. Abuse rates for all major categories of prescription drugs saw increases, with painkillers remaining the most abused substance. Over half the number of people who obtained prescription drugs for non-medical use received them from a friend or relative at no cost, while another 15% bought them or took them from a friend or relative (SAMHSA, 2013). The only way to explain this increase is that people are being overmedicated. Ways to limit over prescription Pharmacies have a role to play in the oversight of prescriptions for CS and opioid in particular. Under the Controlled Substance Act (CSA), pharmacists must evaluate patients to ensure the appropriateness of any controlled substance prescription. In addition, state boards of pharmacy regulate the distribution of opioid analgesics...
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...Theory Selection “Groups provide positive peer support and pressure to abstain from substances of abuse” (SAMHSA, 2005, p. 25). Ultimately, over a brief period of time, most individuals who participate in group therapy will become familiar and comfortable with the process of group therapy. However, in order for group members to stay in the group long enough to achieve familiarity and become comfortable, group leaders must apply the appropriate method of therapy. Therefore, the group therapy models used for this particular assignment will include Adlerian therapy, and psychoanalytic therapy. Adlerian Approach Applying the Adlerian approach to the group will allow a goal aimed at assisting group members with understanding how issues from their past have continued to negatively influence their lives. Using the Adlerian approach will allow therapists to begin helping members begin working to resolve negative issues from their pasts, and move beyond faulty assumptions, and feelings of inferiority. Techniques used with Adlerian therapy may include, building relationships, exploring mistaken goals and faulty assumptions, working to develop social interest and goals, and working to achieve life tasks. Psychoanalytic Approach On the other hand, applying the psychoanalytic approach in which members, in an effort to change insight and begin working through unresolved issues from different psychosocial stages of development, will begin bringing issues from their unconscious into their...
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...The Legalization of Marijuana Maurice Gonzalez PHI103: Informal Logic Instructor Craig Thompson 8/7/15 Marijuana is dried leaves, flowers stems, and seeds that comes from a hemp plant called Cannabis sativa. It contains a chemical called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that affects the brain system. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States (SAMHSA, 2014). People smoke marijuana in many different ways. Some method of choice are in hand rolled cigarettes referred to as Joints, water or non-water pipes known as Bongs or emptied cigars known as Blunts. People also bake Marijuana in sweets such as cookies candies and cakes. When an individual smokes marijuana short term the toxic chemicals immediately rushes from the lungs and into the blood stream. The blood steam immediately distributes the chemical to the brain and the rest of the organs in the body. The parts of the brain containing the highest amount of receptors are affected by THC that involves altered senses, sense of time, mood change, impaired body movement, memory, difficulty thinking, and solving problems. Long term use also affects brain development. For example if a teenager use the drug it can negatively affect the building of the brains connections between spaces needed for thinking memory, and learning. These affects could last a long time or perhaps may become permanent depending on the body. For example, a study showed that people who started smoking marijuana heavily in...
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...The two most commonly used and abused drugs in the United States, are alcohol and marijuana. Is either drug good or bad for you, there are so many different studies that tell you the good and bad of use of alcohol and marijuana. According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrations (SAMHSA) alcohol is the number one legal drug used in the United States, which marijuana being the most-illegal drug used. Even though alcohol is legal and marijuana illegal, does not mean that either is good for you. Marijuana is a very controversial topic in the media right now, alongside with alcohol. The effects are very different; marijuana has immediate effect and can last for up to two hours after smoking. With alcohol, users feel slight effects after one drink. They can recover faster-depending how much they drank, how much they weigh, and if they ate before they drunk any alcohol. The immediate effects of alcohol use are slurred speech, poor judgment, and lack of motor skills. While the effects of marijuana are red eyes, dry mouth, increased appetite, paranoia, hallucinations, slowed reaction and memory loss. Drinking large amounts of alcohol can lead to coma, and even death, for a person to overdose on marijuana they would have to inhale about 40,000 times the amount of THC that took them to get high. To obtain the amount of THC to overdose a smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response...
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