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Long Term Substance Abuse Programs And Covid, Randall Craft
Long Term Substance Abuse Programs And Covid, Randall Craft
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Introduction: Access to behavioral health care has arisen as both a challenge and an opportunity as America deals with a health care landscape that has been significantly and probably permanently transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic increased the need for behavioral health services while creating new hurdles to care for those who already had disorders. The pandemic, however, also spurred innovation, leading to expanded tele-behavioral health treatments and other technological advancements. Also bringing Overdose death rates sky rocketing.
Methodology: This study utilized a literature review and a semi-structured interview. Four databases were used to collect 41 total …
Impact Of State-Led Surveillance Programs On Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Patricia Lewis
Impact Of State-Led Surveillance Programs On Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Patricia Lewis
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Introduction: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) has been costly for the healthcare system, for every 24 minutes a baby was diagnosed in 2020. Uniform programs to diagnosis, track and prevent NAS have not been implemented previously. The NCBDDD worked with 6 states to implement a uniform surveillance program. By tracking the NAS incidence rate, the Apgar scores of infants with NAS, the length of stay for those infants, the cost of care for those infants and the percentage of mothers of infants with NAS were participating in Medication Assisted Treatment the effectiveness of the surveillance programs may be assessed.
Methodology: This …