CMHS Consumer Affairs E-News
January 8, Vol. 08-03
Three New SAMHSA Overview Papers Provide Information
on State-of-the-Art Approaches to Treatment for People
with Co-Occurring Disorders
Three new short overview papers from the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
provide information about how epidemiology, services
integration and systems integration research and practices
can be best utilized in helping people with co-occurring
substance use and mental disorders.
These overview reports are the final in a series developed
by SAMHSA's Co-occurring Center for Excellence (COCE),
a leading national public health resource in the field
of understanding and disseminating crucial information
about addressing this problem. The series is based on
the best available science, research and practices and
is primarily geared for a wide array of mental health
and substance abuse treatment service professionals,
although they provide useful information to the general
public as well.
The three newly available overview papers include the
following:
- Services Integration: Overview Paper 6 defines
and explains how services integration practices can
help merge previously separate substance abuse treatment
and mental health clinical services provided at the
individual level to people with co-occurring disorders.
Combining and coordinating these treatments at the
level of direct contact with individual clients can
better ensure that their full range of treatment needs
are addressed. This approach emphasizes that successful
treatment of co-occurring disorders is very often
based on providing all the client's treatment needs
as concurrently as possible.
- Systems Integration:
Overview Paper 7 outlines the benefits of developing
public health infrastructures that systematically
integrate mental health and substance abuse treatment
programs to better meet the full needs of people with
these disorders. The paper encourages integrated system
planning, continuous quality improvement analysis
activities and other practices that lead to more effective,
comprehensive public health services for meeting the
health needs of this client community.
- The Epidemiology
of Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders:
Overview Paper 8 is presented in two parts. Part 1
provides the general
public with a basic understanding of the field of
epidemiology and how it has been used to shed light
on the problem of co-occurring disorders.
In particular, it focuses on three major studies that
are regularly referenced as prime sources of information
on the nature and scope of this problem. Part 2 is
geared more to the scientific community and provides
more detailed technical information on these three
studies.
SAMHSA is creating these training materials as part
of the plan outlined in its November 2002 Report to
Congress on the Prevention and Treatment of Co-Occurring
Substance Abuse Disorders and Mental Disorders.
Previously published short papers address a wide range
of other issues and practices related to addressing
the needs of people with co-occurring disorders. More
information about the Co-Occurring Center for Excellence
and the short papers can be found at www.coce.samhsa.gov.
Copies may be obtained free of charge by calling SAMHSA's
Health Information Network at 1-877-SAMHSA-7 (1-877-726-4727).
Request inventory number SMA-074294 for Overview Paper
6, SMA-074295 for Overview Paper 7, and SMA-074308 for
Overview Paper 8. For related publications and information,
visit http://www.samhsa.gov/.
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