A Passion for Patients

A passion for patients

Filed under: Charlotte Drug Treatment

Over the years, Thompson has seen how the stigma around the disease may not have changed much, but treatments have improved and his patients are living much longer. And he's seen other Charlotte-area HIV care providers move on to other fields, with …
Read more on Charlotte Observer

 

Heroin threat rising

Filed under: Charlotte Drug Treatment

Police and drug rehabilitation officials have campaigned hard recently to persuade parents to lock up their drugs at home and get rid of any old prescription drugs they no longer are using. Special drop-offs … Charlotte authorities say the city ranks …
Read more on The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

 

Tuesday's Sports Transactions

Filed under: Charlotte Drug Treatment

MLB_Suspended Toronto RHP Marcus Stroman (New Hampshire-EL), Kansas City 1B Mark Donato (Royals-Arizona) and Tampa Bay OF Joshua Sale (Bowling Green-MWL) 50 games each for positive tests under the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program …
Read more on WDTN

 


 

CTN Webinar: Addiction Severity Index (ASI) Interviewer Booster. – This 3-hour refresher course, produced by the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) Clinical Coordinating Center for CTN members and the public, to help assure appropriate administration of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), a standardized screening and assessment instruments. The training will include instructional highlights of each ASI section, a review of ASI introduction and anchoring, refresher information on intent of items and coding issues, and guidance on questions not covered in the ASI manual. The target audience is certified ASI interviewers and trainers needing an ASI Administration refresher. Presented by T. Ronald Jackson, MSW (Evergreen Treatment Services, PN Node), Charlotte Royer-Malvestuto, MEd, MBE (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, DV Node), and Sabrina A. Poole, MS (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, DV Node). For more resources related to this webinar, as well as other webinars in this series, visit: ctndisseminationlibrary.org

 

From Twitter:

Had ideal opp to say social return on investment #sroi, ahh never mind, every £1 spent on drug treatment saves the police £3 – by Charlotte_Glass (Charlotte Glass)