April 2010 - Sober News

Former UK player Derrick Millar will participate in drug rehab program Lexington Herald Leader If he successfully completes the Hope Center drug rehabilitation program while incarcerated, he will then have to participate in drug court, which involves...

About 15 years ago, I had the pleasure of working at a company founded by a tough-minded, entrepreneurial, bulldog of a man named Craig Allison. Fairly early in my work with him, I brought him an issue that I thought required some senior management attention. His response was friendly, but crisp: “Don't bring me a problem, bring me a solution.” I paused, nodded my head thoughtfully, and left. I took everything that Craig said very...

The road to recovery for individuals living with mental illness is far from easy. Thanks to dedicated mental health professionals and national and community programs and services, consumers are not alone on their journey toward full reintegration. Do you or your colleagues work to secure full-time housing, employment, clinical treatment, or other services that assist those battling mental illness? Lilly USA, LLC welcomes you to share your stories...

As described in Winifred Gallagher's Power of Place , “we need places that support rather than fragment our lives, places that balance the hard, standardized and cost-efficient with the natural, personal and healthful.” 1 Today, a new population is being shaped as a result of the ongoing fight against terrorism. Honorable soldiers and their spouses and children are its members who are adjusting to the invisible injuries of anxiety...

For more than 40 years, Livengrin Foundation (Bensalem, PA) has housed its 70 residential rehab patients in the upper floors of its historic, century-old manor house and, later, in two dorm-style wings constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. But when strategic planners evaluated the staffing, clinical, financial, and marketing demands of Livengrin's continued growth, along with the daunting costs of updating the aging dormitories into comfortable...

Last month, three healthcare design experts gathered to address the chal-lenge of creating effective healthcare facilities in an era of economic uncertainty. Though financial troubles have hit every sector of the healthcare industry hard, our experts say that a changing budget picture doesn't mean the standards of good design must change. Rather, our priorities must. Bill Rostenberg (Principal and Director of Research at Anshen + Allen), Susan...

In 2002, Bauer reported a 13 to 17 year delay in the clinical adaptation of behavioral health research findings, and in 2006 the Institute of Medicine estimated that this delay results in a 70 to 80 percent chance of patients not receiving the best practice available. 11 One prominent example of behavioral health care providers' difficulty in translating research findings into practice involves the generic antipsychotic medication clozapine. Clozapine's...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a second test to screen blood, tissue and organ donors for a blood-borne parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) that causes Chagas disease, a serious and potentially fatal parasitic infection.