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CASAT Conversations is a resource for exploring behavioral health topics. These topics explore the complex connection between how our environment, behaviors and actions impact our health and wellbeing. With a wide-range of timely topics, CASAT Conversations is geared towards having meaningful conversations with people sharing their capacity for personal growth and change, along with expert
Dr. Stephanie Woodard, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services Senior Advisor on Behavioral Health, talks about how Assembly Bill 474 has helped with Nevada’s opioid crisis since its passage in 2017. RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — It’s been a little more than a year since AB474, or the Controlled Substance Abuse Prevention act
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The Downtown Reno Partnership ambassadors were trained how to use Narcan by The Life Change Center’s MORE team two weeks ago. The team, headed by Lisa Lee and Jennifer Cassady, uses Narcan during their outreach work. Now, all the ambassadors carry two doses of Narcan with them as they make their rounds through downtown Reno. Downtown Reno Partnership
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Nevada’s Recovery and Prevention Community is hosting the 3rd annual Scholar’s Breakfast on Thursday, February 7th, 2019 at 8 am. Join us for a light breakfast and a brief presentation as we highlight the programmatic and student accomplishments of 2018 and share our vision for the future. Thank you for your ongoing support of University
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A conference focused on breaking down silos and promoting the use of frontline health workers (such as Community Health Workers) to improve community health and chronic disease management! Impact will have breakout sessions focused on developing skills as well as administration of CHWs in an organization. The second day will focus on promoting CHWs and
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Building Hope and Resiliency in Nevada’s next generation
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Addressing prescription drug abuse and opioid addiction in Nevada’s safety net health centers: Understand the current availability of prescription drug abuse treatment at nevada’s community health centers (chcs), rural health and tribal clinics. Understand public resources available to support safe prescribing of opioids and overdose response. Provide practical tools that any chc or rural health
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03/08/2017 07:24 pm ET | Updated Mar 17, 2017 For every 100,000 people in the United States, 200 are addicted to heroin and counting. US News Statistics like these have led officials to call this trend a “heroin epidemic,” and for good reason. Heroin use in the U.S. increased 63 percent between 2002 and 2013,
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