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• Alcohol Misuse Prevention: A Conversation for Everyone
  By Dona Dmitrovic, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention The global coronavirus pandemic has forced us to learn new ways of doing many things. Employees in some job sectors learned to work from home, while others had to find entirely new sources of income. Parents learned to be teachers for their kids, while teachers themselves […]
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• There are ways you can intervene to help prevent someone from acting on thoughts of suicide
  Anita Everett M.D. DFAPA, Director, Center for Mental Health Services National suicide rates are rising, and this is especially true for our nation’s youth suicide rate. Suicide is largely a preventable cause of death, and you are more able to help prevent it than you might think. Suicide is the result of actions being connected […]
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• Mes Nacional de la Salud de las Minorías: Estrategias para posicionar a los jóvenes para posibles carreras de salud conductual
  Roxana A. Hernandez, MPH, Shayla C. Anderson, MPH, CHES, Mary Roary, PhD, MBA - Oficina de Equidad en Salud Mental (OBHE)
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• National Minority Health Month Spotlight: Strategies to Position Youth for Potential Behavioral Health Careers
  By Roxana A. Hernandez, MPH, Shayla C. Anderson, MPH, CHES, Mary Roary, PhD, MBA - Office of Behavioral Health Equity
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• Treatment and Prevention Strategies to Reduce Opioid Misuse
  By Robert Baillieu M.D., M.P.H., Physician and Senior Clinical and Practice Advisor,  Center for Substance Abuse Treatment In managing or preventing substance use disorders, nothing should occur in isolation. People and systems of care are complex. They require frequent observation, assessment and understanding. To this end, systems focused on medical models, statistics and abstract ideas […]
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• Prevention Progress: Helping Communities Talk, Even During a Pandemic
  By: Dona Dmitrovic, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention In a world filled with a seemingly endless number of troubling headlines, it seems that everyone is looking for a bit of good news these days. And here it is: Underage drinking and substance misuse prevention is making an impact across the country! According to SAMHSA’s […]
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• Celebrate Women’s History Month by Prioritizing Your Mental Health
  By: SAMHSA's Office of Behavioral Health Equity As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we want to take time to celebrate the diverse, brilliant women across this nation who keep everything going at home and work, within community organizations and faith institutions, and in every aspect of life. We celebrate the women from our history who […]
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• New SAMHSA Guide Highlights HIV Prevention and Treatment for People with Substance Use and/or Mental Disorders
  By: HIV.gov. This blog was posted on HIV.gov on February 3, 2021. The HHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released Prevention and Treatment of HIV Among People Living with Substance Use and/or Mental Disorders, a guidebook that addresses the co-occurrence of HIV and mental illness and/or substance use disorder (SUD) and reviews effective programs […]
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• On World AIDS Day, SAMHSA renews commitment to end the HIV epidemic
  Kristin Roha, MS, MPH, Public Health Advisor for HIV, and Dr. Neeraj Gandotra, M.D., Chief Medical Officer Established in 1988, World AIDS Day allows the people of the world to show support for people living with and affected by HIV, and to commemorate people who have lost their lives to AIDS. In 2020, the COVID-19 […]
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• Confronted with Multiple Crises, Latinos Draw Upon Culture and Community (Enfrentando múltiples crisis, los latinos recurren a la cultura y a la comunidad)
  By: Roxana Hernandez, MPH; Shayla Anderson, MPH, CHES; Victoria Chau, Ph.D., MPH; Larke Huang, Ph.D., SAMHSA Office of Behavioral Health Equity
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