"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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November 11, 2009 | Evaluation
The Fighting Back evaluation collected a broad range of qualitative and quantitative data from various sources about the nature and impact of the interventions in each of the 12 Fighting Back communities.
May 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services developed a project designed to reduce the demand for illicit alcohol and drugs in the central city of Milwaukee.
May 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Fighting Back program was a $87.9 million national program to assist communities of 100,000 to 250,000 people to implement a variety of anti-drug strategies. It ran until the fall of 2003.
National Program
Initiative to test the feasibility and effectiveness of developing a large national effort to build a cadre of researchers who integrate substance abuse issues into mainstream medicine.
October 5, 2009 | Program Result
Drug dealers selling crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, used to be a common site at Kahekili Terrace, a low-income housing project on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
July 23, 2009 | Story
James Prochaska, PhD, has been recognized (along with Innovator Carlo C. DiClemente) for his work illuminating how addicted people change in their interest and ability to achieve abstinence.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Fighting Back project in Santa Barbara, Calif., worked from 1990 to 2002 to reduce the personal and community consequences that result from illegal drug use and alcohol abuse.
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
Investigators at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center created the Center for Professional Health, which provides a program for health professionals who overprescribe painkillers or other controlled drugs.
July 1, 2007 | Program Result
The Center for Family Studies and the School of Architecture at the University of Miami examined the connection between the built environment in which children live and their school conduct and academic grades.
October 15, 2009 | Program Result
PRISM sought to encourage physicians and health care researchers to address the effects of alcohol and drug abuse on serious chronic illnesses.