The professionals at BoardPrep Recovery Center, an exclusive rehab in Tampa, Florida help families understand the answer to this question every day. Addiction is not willful; rather it is a disease that “hijacks” the brain. When you suggest a person quit or cut back, they may FEEL as though you are telling them to go without food…
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“Over-diagnosis and under-diagnosis are real problems in psychiatry. The true diagnostic picture usually begins to emerge after detoxification and some time. Many of the diagnoses need to be teased out over several sessions.” BoardPrep’s experts provide integrated and concurrent treatment for: Anxiety Mood Attention Sleep Pain Post-acute withdrawal BoardPrep tailors recovery plans with awareness and respect…
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John Harden directed the Florida Society of Addiction Medicine (FSAM) as the Executive from 2006-2014, leading the specialty medical society to advocate in the FMA for key policy initiatives and executing important national educational conferences and summits – including Florida Society of Addiction Medicine at the UF Brain Institute 1 and 2, FSAM Conference at USF…
DetailsRegister Here for September 22nd event at Tampa Yacht and Country Club “Community Forum on Teen and Young Adult Mental Health” PROGRAM DESCRIPTION FULL RESOLUTION POSTCARD Sponsors Tampa Bay Foundation for Mental Health BoardPrep Recovery Center Rogers Behavioral Health Program Description The first Community Forum on Young Adult & Teen Mental Health brings together parents, mental…
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The attached article by Deni Carise articulates a continuing and growing problem in the health insurance market, inadequate coverage for substance use and mental disorders. Its nothing short of “bait and switch.” They clearly say the coverage is there, but when the claim is submitted, they switch the conversation to “medical necessity, pre-certification, day limits, managed…
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HITTING BOTTOM, THE MYTH: HOW DUAL DISORDERS HIJACK THE BRAIN “When you think you’ve hit bottom, the disease hands you a shovel and says DIG DEEPER!” Insight is lost. Loss of control over one’s own actions is the hallmark symptom of addiction and dual disorders. Wanting and intending to quit or cutback on using, but instead…
DetailsTreatment Must Be Deployed in Tandem with “Supply-side” Interventions John Romano confirms what we have been seeing for the past 3 years in phone calls and admissions to treatment. Experts HAD been predicting a leveling-off or even reduction in overdose deaths due to reduction in the “supply side” of supply and demand. Unfortunately, the high level…
DetailsASAM applauds announcement of new addiction medicine board examination in fall of 2017 by ASAM Staff | November 30, 2016 ASAM Applauds the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) and The Addiction Medicine Foundation (TAMF) regarding new addiction medicine board examination in fall of 2017 November 30, 2016 – Today the American Board of Preventive…
DetailsRehab Medications in 2017 How Medications are Utilized Today to Support the Treatment of Addiction and Dual Disorders Treatment of addiction and dual disorders is more effective today than ever, in part due to medical advances in the past 20 years. In the 80s and 90s, only a few medications were available to assist with…
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This snippet from the Washington Post says what professionals in the trenches already suspected . . . the opiate problem is getting worse . . . Washington Post 12/20/17: Opioid deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday. That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths…
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