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Addiction and Drug Education Blogs and Podcasts, looking at drug use trends and treatment, and how addiction is tied to the brain as well as the body addiction, drugs, education, recovery, substance abuse education, prevention, chemical dependency, AOD CNS Productions CNS Productions service@cnsproductions.com no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/608/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/608/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:08:24 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=608 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/608/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Is America poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment -- this is question that starts a ... Is America poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment -- this is question that starts a recent AP story (by David Crary published Nov 8, 2009) on changing attitudes about conducting the War on Drugs. The overall cost saving to government, and society of treating people with substance abuse addictions, rather than incarcerate them, and  the increasing acceptance of addiction as a mental and biological condition are part of the discussion on this weeks Addiction Podcast, featuring Dr. Darryl Inaba. Listen to podcast Transcript: CNS: Hi and welcome once again to the addiction radio podcast from CNS. I’m Howard LaMere here with Dr. Darryl Inaba. Darryl in the news this week a good story written by an associated press reporter on the shift in perception on treatment of addiction and it looks like it is shifting, if gradually. Darryl: Well, it’s such an exciting and inspiring story. It’s what we’ve all been talking about for at least forty years and now in the White House, Tom McLellan, the Deputy Director for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, put in there by Obama, seems to be moving us in the direction, everybody has evaluated to be the proper direction, but nobody seemed to have the courage to really take us -- and that’s a real focus toward treatment, rather than incarceration and also interdiction … investing again in the demand side of the war on drugs rather than the supply side of the war on drugs, and what’s so exciting about this, in a funny way is its capitalistic, the way they’re presenting this thing is purely from a capitalistic point of view, that looks at hey, it’s a lot cheaper and more effective to treat addicts than it is to lock them in jail. Which has been a total failure for all this period of time, so why not invest in seeing if we can actually make a dent in things by providing more access to treatment by individuals and taking the money we can save by not incarcerating addicts and put that into treatment and if that comes to play that’s really great; they’re all citing the New York experiments, that New York went this way recently where they’re putting much more emphasis than even California’s proposition did, of putting convicted drug users who are not, or who haven’t had any kind of violent crime… to put them into treatment rather than to put them into jail and they’re looking at that as a test case, but I think that there’s a whole wealth of data. I remember the University of Pennsylvania meta-study of over a thousand treatment programs that looked at this issue and all concluded, the outcomes all concluded, that every dollar you spent treating an addict and an alcoholic is going to make money for you in terms of the savings it will bring about, in terms of criminal justice system, social costs and other costs. So why we haven’t done this before, I don’t get it, but now the top drug people in the country are citing the evidence and citing from a capitalistic point of view, this makes sense. Let’s start spending money for treatment and less money for incarceration. He quotes, Thom McLellan, does that about sixteen per cent of people who needed treatment last year where able to access treatment. There’s the University of Marilyn study that came up that actually shows it might higher if you look at not only those people who wanted treatment but you also looked at those people who met criteria for this disorder and needed treatment but weren’t able to access it, that the number might be considerable into five, one in five based treatment, its only one in about twenty or thirty were able to access treatment. So certainly there’s a treatment gap in place, there’s people who want treatment that need to get into treatment, and pretty much they’re stating that treatment is fairly effective although we’re only getting fifty per cent of those people who enter treatment, completing treatmen Addiction Education / Prevention, Decriminalization / Legalization, Demand reduction, Dr. Darryl Inaba, In the News, Podcasts, Treatment & Testing CNS Productions no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/321/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/321/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:30:52 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=321 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/321/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Individualized treatment vs. group therapy are among the key differences in approach between mental health practionioners and substance abuse treatment counselors. Dr. Inaba concludes this ... Individualized treatment vs. group therapy are among the key differences in approach between mental health practionioners and substance abuse treatment counselors. Dr. Inaba concludes this series with a look to where treatment for those with a dual-diagnosis or co-occurring disorders is headed. Co-occurring Disorders, Dr. Darryl Inaba, Podcasts, Treatment & Testing, Understanding Addictions & Brain Chemistry CNS Productions no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/295/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/295/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:53:52 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=295 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/295/feed/ 0 00:01:01 In the 3rd of this 4 part series, Dr. Inaba looks at how the differences in treatment approaches impact the person with a co-occurring disorder ... In the 3rd of this 4 part series, Dr. Inaba looks at how the differences in treatment approaches impact the person with a co-occurring disorder condition. Dr. Darryl Inaba, Podcasts, Treatment & Testing, Understanding Addictions & Brain Chemistry CNS Productions no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/290/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/290/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 22:14:11 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=290 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/290/feed/ 0 00:01:01 In this 2nd of our 4 part series, Dr. Darryl Inaba looks at some of the differences in treatment philosophies between mental health practitioners, and ... In this 2nd of our 4 part series, Dr. Darryl Inaba looks at some of the differences in treatment philosophies between mental health practitioners, and substance abuse treatment providers. Dr. Darryl Inaba, Podcasts, Treatment & Testing CNS Productions no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/271/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/271/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 22:04:10 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=271 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/271/feed/ 0 00:01:01 In the first of a four-part series, Dr. Inaba looks at efforts to provide a complete treatment approach for those with both a mental illness ... In the first of a four-part series, Dr. Inaba looks at efforts to provide a complete treatment approach for those with both a mental illness diagnosis, and a substance use problem. Co-occurring Disorders, Dr. Darryl Inaba, Podcasts, Prescription/OTC drugs, Psychiatric medications, Treatment & Testing, Understanding Addictions & Brain Chemistry CNS Productions no no