Addiction & Recovery articles from May 1992

Addiction & Recovery archives from May 1992

Airline alcoholism/treatment centers and Wall Street. (Publisher's Notes) (Column)
May 1, 1992... It has been alleged that cancer is intractible because its causes are part of the environment. Put another way, economic incentives and consumer convenience are the engines of new products that happen to be carcinogenic. By the same token, we...

Treatment initiatives produce mixed results. (Washington)
May 1, 1992... Federal government efforts to improve drug abuse treatment for "special populations" appear to be producing results - some solid, some showy. This became evident at a recent New Orleans conference on the projects hosted by the Special...

Putting the ASAM criteria to work. (interview with David Mee-Lee on the American Society of Addiction Medicine's standards) (Interview)
May 1, 1992... Perhaps it's a bit much to call it a therapeutic revolution, but by the time two major provider organizations - ASAM and NAATP - got through devising new addictions treatment criteria last year, the traditional approach to therapy just didn't...

How the ASAM criteria helped save our treatment center. (American Society of Addiction Medicine)
May 1, 1992... Taking a calculated risk on reorganizing its treatment approach appears to have turned this center around Although the influence of managed care is usually viewed by treatment centers as a detriment to the bottom line, at least one program...

Contracting with managed care entities.
May 1, 1992... Treating patients under a contract with managed care can be an exercise in frustration, or worse, if certain principles aren't followed Considering its subject matter, this article could justifiably be offered as a multi-volume treatise...

A payor sounds off about the treatment industry.
May 1, 1992... At the National Managed Health Care Congress this spring, David Nassef, Corporate Ombudsman for Pitney Bowes, Inc., laid it on the line for treatment providers attending his session. In no-nonsense fashion, he described just what it was that...

Fundamentals of communication.
May 1, 1992... Managed care denials of reimbursement can severely hamper patient care and a treatment center's financial viability. Here's how to address and appeal unwarranted denials From the perspective of the addiction treatment provider, external...

How to give managed care the data it wants.
May 1, 1992... Documentation and more documentation will win the day. Here's how one treatment center is going about providing it The economic woes of health care in America today are quite well known. It seems, though, that the problems associated with...

"Penny-wise, pound foolish"? (relapse prevention)
May 1, 1992... Giving up on relapsers and refusing to pay for their care is a manifestation Relapse prevention is obviously of serious concern to managed care providers responsible for containing the cost of chemical dependency treatment. When we look at...

Getting managed care to pay attention. (interview with Harold Swift) (Interview)
May 1, 1992... Last fall NAATP's Board of Directors adopted model legislation describing various requirements to be imposed on managed care companies that deal with addictions treatment providers. On the theory that legislation, by negation, defines a problem...

Forward to the past. (medical insurance coverage for addictions treatment, includes commentary) (Perspectives in Managed Care) (Column)
May 1, 1992... As I watched Senator Edward Kennedy (D.Ma.) on television explaining his proposal for a Federal solution to the "Health Care Crisis in America," I couldn't help but reflect upon what we in the addictions treatment field have failed to achieve....

A new treatment model for managed care. (brief therapy)
May 1, 1992... "Brief therapy" sounds as though it might be to managed care's liking. Here's how it might be adapted to the specific problems of addictions treatment It's a theme for the Nineties: Employers who are private purchasers of healthcare are...

Electrotherapy for addictions. (cranial electrotherapy stimulation)
May 1, 1992... The concept is ancient, but the technology and the research are new - and promising During the last decade, evidence provided by such researchers as Henri Begleiter and Boris Tabakoff has demonstrated a close relationship between some...

Is A.A. "treatment?" You bet. (Alcoholics Anonymous)
May 1, 1992... In his famous presentation, "Chalk Talk," Father Joseph Martin refers to the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as "twelve steps of therapy out of the pit (of addiction)." At first hearing, one may not catch the significance of this...