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Overview Paper 1: Definitions and Terms Relating to Co-Occurring Disorders
It is essential to use a common language to develop consensus on how to address the needs of persons with co-occurring disorders. This paper provides definitions of terms associated with substance-related disorders, mental disorders, co-occurring disorders, and programs.

Overview Paper 2: Screening, Assessment, and Treatment Planning for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders
Clients with co-occurring disorders (COD) are best served through an integrated screening, assessment, and treatment planning process that addresses both substance use and mental disorders. This paper discusses the purpose, appropriate staffing, protocols, methods, advantages and disadvantages, and processes for integrated screening, assessment, systems issues, financing, and treatment planning for persons with COD.

Developing Competitive SAMHSA Grant Applications, March 2007
This technical assistance manual, Developing Competitive SAMHSA Grant Applications, is designed to help SAMHSA grant applicants acquire the skills and resources needed to plan, write, and prepare competitive grant applications for Agency funding.

Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking: What it Means to You
A Guide to Action
A Guide for Educators
A Guide for Communities
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking seeks to raise awareness of and promote action on underage drinking and its effects. In addition to bringing attention to underage drinking and its negative consequences, the Call to Action identifies six goals for preventing and reducing youth drinking. A Guide to Action for Families, which is based on the Call to Action, provides family members, those who work with young people, and adolescents and teens with evidence-based strategies and action steps they can use to prevent underage drinking. Both the Call to Action and the Guide to Action for Families were developed in collaboration with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

NSDUH: Work Absences and Past Month Cigarette use: 2004 and 2005
Among adults aged 18 to 64 who were currently employed full time, 29.1 percent smoked cigarettes during the past month. Females aged 18 to 64 who were employed full time were more likely to have missed at least 1 day of work in the past month due to illness or injury than their male counterparts. Among adults aged 18 to 64 who were employed full time, past month cigarette smokers were more likely to have missed work on 5 or more days in the past month due to illness or injury than those who did not smoke cigarettes in the past month (4.2 vs. 3.0 percent).

DASIS Report May 10, 2007: Length of Stay for Outpatient Discharges Completing Treatment: 2004
Outpatient treatment completers who reported stimulants as their primary substance of abuse had the longest median length of stay (137 days). The median length of stay among outpatient treatment completers in 2004 was longest among Hispanic discharges (126 days) and shortest among American Indians/Alaska Natives (84 days). Clients referred to treatment through the criminal justice system had a longer median length of stay (107 days) than clients referred through other sources.

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Trauma Patients
This guide is intended to help Level I and II trauma centers implement Screening and Brief Interventions (SBI) as part of routine trauma cases. It reviews the elements that should be considered as part of implementing a successful program and will be a reference for SBI in other settings as well.

Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: Participant Workbook
This workbook was developed for use in conjunction with "Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manual" (BKD444). It provides individuals participating in the 12-week anger management group treatment with a summary of core concepts, worksheets to complete homework assignments, and space to take notes for each of the sessions.

Dear Abby: Surgeon General Calls Public to Combat Underage Drinking
DEAR ABBY: As acting surgeon general of the United States, I would like to thank you for your recent reply on March 4 to a question regarding underage drinking. You advised your readers that "when children drink alcohol, they can more easily become dependent than adults." more...

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