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January 15, 2021

Experiential Therapy for Addiction Recovery

As self-help guru and motivational speaker Tony Robbins says, "Emotion is created by motion." That is why experiential therapy is an essential part of the treatment protocol embraced by addiction recovery programs. These hands-on, engaging activities offer those in treatment the experience of being in nature, expressing themselves through art, and interacting with others.

These models differ significantly from the images we often associate with therapy: the Freudian picture of a client on a couch with a practitioner diligently scribbling notes and offering an occasional nod.  Talk therapy, while beneficial, is only one part of the mental health services picture. Experiential therapies use “expressive tools” and techniques such as role-playing, guided imagery, and animal care to process presenting concerns while building internal resources to process trauma.

Experiential therapy is not just one form of therapeutic intervention but an array of experiences, including emotional processing, interactions with others, creativity, and reflections of events. In addition to traditional treatments, programs that feature art therapy, equine therapy, and movement therapies may best equip clients for recovery and personal growth.

Art Therapy

As an expression of our creativity, art takes place in many forms. Similarly, the possibilities within the world of art therapy feel just as endless.  

For some, the thought of talking about themselves is daunting—they have no idea where to begin. Because of difficult life circumstances, painful trauma, and upsetting memories, the process of traditional talk therapy may impede progress. Through art therapy, clinicians have the unique ability to harness the power of personal expression for healing and growth.

During treatment, art therapists present clients with various art forms to express their emotions and experiences through nonverbal means. Clients and therapists then work together to understand the potential meanings and the many layers of each client’s art, both hidden and overt. While the art itself can be subjective, art therapists use objective empirical techniques to interpret, ensuring that the client’s welfare and healing continue to be the highest priority in treatment. 

Art therapy is available as a mode of expression and healing tailored to the client’s needs and used in conjunction with other services when necessary. Art therapy techniques' versatility makes them an excellent option for clients who best communicate through expressive means.

Equine Therapy

As an alternative to written or drawn expressive therapies, animal-assisted therapies provide the opportunity to create relationships and nurturing through the care of animals. Equine therapy is one type of the many animal-assisted treatments available. 

In treatment with equine therapy, therapists use the bond between human and beast to explore clients’ presenting concerns while challenging their personal growth. Equine therapists have the unique capacity to understand and tune in to both the client and the horse. Therapists then use this understanding to help clients learn how to trust and nurture their relationship with the horse. This trust and nurturance challenge the client to confront their fears and acknowledge their needs for future growth.

Talk or group therapy can be paired with equine therapy's experiential nature to allow clients to process the changes they make in the course of treatment.  Attempting to impose your will on an animal 2-3 times your size is a beautiful metaphor for the control we try to assert over our future. Learning to face your pride, step out of your realm of comfort, and do something new can all be incredible growth experiences. 

For individuals who feel a barrier to speaking out their hurt, feelings of shame or isolation, or those who have difficulty discussing their failings, equine therapy presents the opportunity to use the horse's support and connection to express their needs. For those who have the chance to interact and connect with a horse in this way, it can be incredibly powerful and healing.

Movement Therapy

Movement therapy may be considered a form of art therapy. However, in this context, it warrants its own definition. Movement therapies harness the connection between the body and mind to foster emotional and physical health. Dance, yoga, and martial arts are a few of the ways that movement can be incorporated into the treatment of emotional and physical concerns. Practitioners of movement therapies facilitate clients’ expression in both challenging and enlightening ways. True to the tenants of dance, “interconnection” and “integration” are integral to this process of expression.

During treatment, practitioners pair clients with movement forms meant to foster the “integration” of the emotional and physical self. In the sense that many problematic symptoms can present somatically, so too healing takes place on the somatic level. 

Movement therapists seek to provide environments where clients are safe enough to embrace the challenge of telling their stories through movement. While expression occurs, practitioners also teach clients to bring peace to mind through the brain-body connection. This personal, peaceful awareness is introduced through the practice of mindful movement and meditation. 

Experiential therapies seek to embrace the uniqueness of the human spirit and pair it with the beauty of mental, emotional, and physical wellness. Practitioners and clients alike may find that they gravitate towards experiential therapies when seeking to express and facilitate growth through experiences versus traditional talk therapies. 

Some recovering addicts feel uncomfortable working through their problems in a traditional therapy setting. Experiential therapy takes addiction treatment into the art studio, the outdoors, and more.

Whether you run a traditional practice and seek new ways to help get your clients up off the couch, or you run a successful therapeutic yoga studio or wilderness therapy program, Alleva has solutions for you.  Keeping track of clients and tasks and using our scheduling platform has never been easier. With the friendliest EMR around, your to-do list just got a whole lot easier. 

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January 7, 2021

Challenges in Adolescent Treatment

Challenges to mental health treatment have existed across the board throughout age groups, populations, and socioeconomic classes, but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these issues to the surface. Although some face greater challenges than others, mental health remains a difficult subject for many to broach. Receiving therapy can even be harder for those teens in survival mode, coping with tremendous pressures as they transition into adulthood.

What many people don't realize is that mental health disorders begin to develop during adolescence. About 75 percent of adults with a mental health disorder experienced an onset of symptoms before the age of 24. Additionally, suicide is the third leading cause of death among those aged 10-24 years old. For this reason, the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health disorders in young people are more important than ever.

Treatment Challenges

Some of the challenges for this vulnerable group involve a lack of access to services; others are related to the stigma associated with receiving treatment for mental health diagnosis. Some specific challenges include:

  • Financial concerns
  • Confidentiality
  • The stigma associated with seeking mental health treatment

Need for trained adolescent treatment professionals 

Lack of access to a clinician is a big problem. There are not enough professionals in the field who are trained to treat mental health disorders. There are fewer who specialize in adolescents. Many schools must share mental health professionals with other schools in their district. This means that therapists are unavailable to focus on a set caseload or provide continuity of care to struggling teenagers. An adolescent having to speak to several different counselors, on an irregular schedule, is an immense obstacle.

Need for greater resources 

Lack of access may also be due to finances. Some insurance companies limit the amount of inpatient and outpatient treatment that adolescents can have. This leaves the client, or their family, responsible to pay for services privately. For a group aged 10-24, or a family on a tight budget, this presents a huge challenge. Many young people in our country lack health insurance or reliable transportation, and may even face homelessness. Circumstances like these make services nearly impossible to provide effectively.

Need for greater clarity on ethical and legal matters

In adolescent treatment, there remains the age-old problem of lack of confidentiality in treatment for adolescents. This means that when a minor is involved in treatment, there are countless legal and ethical ramifications, especially with confidentiality. Some states may not allow a minor to explicitly consent to their own outpatient medical treatment. If an adolescent is not able to confide in a parent or guardian, this can create a challenge. Many teens who need treatment for depression or suicidal ideations, do not feel comfortable talking about it with their parents.

Other challenges arise if the adolescent confides in their therapist something of a serious nature, and there is debate regarding whether to inform the parent or guardian. Caregivers not only need to decide what information to share but also how to make sure that a child's family remains updated and informed about their progress, particularly those in residential treatment facilities.

Need to balance treatment for the adolescent and the family

While we may consider the adolescent to be the identified patient, we cannot forget about the role that the entire family plays in the adolescent’s therapy trajectory. When the adolescent functions better, the family functions better and vice versa. Communication processes, attachment styles, and parenting styles all have an impact on the adolescent’s functioning. It is vital to have families work on their dysfunctional patterns in order to truly impact the adolescent’s maladaptive thoughts or behaviors. 

There are several forms of family therapy, and they are typically used in conjunction to provide the best treatment.

  • Psychodynamic -- highlighting the idea that no behavior is random due to our inner conscious and its processes.
  • Structural Family Therapy -- focusing on the overall structure of the family.
  • Strategic Family Therapy -- remaining solution-focused to strategize and solve problems.
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy -- focusing on the idea that no behavior is random due to external social forces.

Although we know that family therapy is an enormous factor in the mental health of adolescents, we cannot guarantee that the family is able or willing to take part in therapy. Challenges to families receiving therapy include time constraints, cost, and biases toward receiving treatment. It is also important to consider that if the adolescent is showing maladaptive behaviors and the family believes the adolescent may need treatment, the family may need a lot of psychoeducation before agreeing to complete sessions as a family. 

The stigma around mental health 

Stigma is a word that we have heard much about, as the importance of mental health has taken over our morning TV programs, social media, and the news. What this generally refers to is the idea that many people avoid seeking treatment for fear that others may see them as weak or unable to solve their own problems. In our individualistic culture, the idea of solving one’s own problems is seen as equivalent to strength, thus therapy is not always considered a valuable resource. 

However, in recent years in the younger community, it appears that this stigma is lessening, as we may now consider it acceptable to have a therapist. That being said, there still exists a role discrepancy because many people view having a therapist as a status symbol. 

Overall, it is important to remember that challenges facing adolescents in terms of treatment come from both internal and external forces. It is the lack of appropriate resources, and the feelings of shame that may come along with the need for professional help. Compounding the problem is the current state of our healthcare system and the coronavirus restrictions in place. Child and adolescent treatment providers must ensure continuity of care during all phases of the pandemic. We can work together to remove the stigma associated with getting help and mitigate these treatment challenges so that our young people get the mental and emotional support they need.

Whether you work with adolescents in an outpatient or residential treatment environment, or are considering adding an adolescent wing to your inpatient treatment program, Alleva has solutions for you.  Keeping track of clients and tasks, staying in touch with family members, and using our scheduling platform has never been easier. With the friendliest EMR around, your to-do list just got a whole lot easier. 

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April 14, 2020

What has Compliance Become?

What has Compliance Become? 

Last month we posted an article that detailed one aspect of the role that compliance specialists play in many behavioral health organizations. While that article focused on the tenuous relationship they often have with the clinicians on staff, it’s true that the compliance specialists’ role is meant to achieve much more than just a title as “stickler” or “perfectionist” by their coworkers. 

Goals of Compliance

For those who are unaware, the compliance department works not only as a way to meet regulatory demands by accrediting bodies such as CARF or The Joint Commission, but also functions as an added layer to protect against fraud, waste, abuse, or misconduct by staff members, or the agency as a whole. This type of work is the heartbeat of any organization that is concerned about its influence in the community and can truly impact the lives of your patients, their families, and all those they come in contact with, as well as your staff.

In the state of this industry, which is rife with ethical complaints, court cases, and legal battles, it is of utmost importance to have a proactive compliance department and to create policies and practices that are more preventative in nature. Often, compliance departments and programs are engineered, per Medicaid regulations, with a few specific aims:

  1. To create and have accessible written policies, procedures, and standards of conduct that comply with all applicable Federal and State requirements.
  2. To designate a Compliance Officer who is responsible for developing and implementing policies and practices and to establish a Regulatory Compliance Committee that is equally accountable to senior management. 
  3. To design a system for training and education for all levels of employees and positions.
  4. To establish effective lines of communication between the compliance officer and the organization's employees.
  5. To enforce standards through well-publicized disciplinary guidelines.
  6. To create procedures within a system of dedicated staff for routine internal monitoring and auditing of compliance risks, prompt response to compliance issues as they are raised, investigation and correction of potential or identified problems promptly and thoroughly in order to maintain ongoing compliance.

Is it Working?

Although these may represent the intentions behind the role of compliance, often still the felt experience of many clinicians is that those reviewing their work are simply lying in wait, excitedly correcting spelling errors or pointing out what seems like insignificant mistakes. They may think that compliance specialists find great joy and their life’s purpose in pointing out when dates or times don’t match up, or when the metaphorical I’s and T’s need dotting and crossing. 

In many ways, this feels like what compliance has become, a shift in focus from pursuing agency standards to simply watching out for any clerical errors. 

At times this appears to be a byproduct of an antiquated way of working together, still relying on paper and pen methods or printing copies, working off of forms that are always needing an update or forgetting to use the most updated version, and just generally not having tools that are actually serving effective documentation practices. Compliance specialists would likely agree that it is not their intention to prioritize these concerns, however, without the tools that make these a non-issue, or at least an easier issue to correct, they end up spending a significant portion of their time and energy on these menial corrections. 

Another concern that occurs down the line, is that although you may have taken great care to create policies, practices, and procedures to ensure compliance, when is the last time a staff member read and used their policy manual? Are the lines of communication between the compliance officer and employees more theoretical in nature? How is ongoing education and training implemented into organizational practice? What are the messages, if any, that you are sending to your employees about compliance? 

When You Partner with Alleva

With Alleva, our model has always been to provide you with the tools needed, so that you can get back to what you do best, compliance department notwithstanding. When you digitize your practice with Alleva, we make it easy to focus on the important things: like pushing yourself to be your best for your community that deserves it. 

Free up your clinician’s time by avoiding repetitive data entry, and make accessing agency policies and procedures a breeze. Allow your compliance specialists to focus on less trivial tasks, with built-in automated auditing and compliance features, and create a work environment that thrives on mutual respect, community, and a drive to pursue excellence. When you partner with the friendliest EMR platform around, you can make your humdrum, routine tasks easy to accomplish. To request a demo, schedule with us today!

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February 14, 2019

How to Choose a Behavioral Health EHR: 10 Things You Need to Consider

1. Identify your goals

It is so important to understand your business goals when looking for a behavioral health EHR. What are your overarching goals for your business and where are you going?  Are you trying to cut costs, grow revenue, expand locations, beds, occupancy or census? Are you trying to better retain staff? Do you have clinical goals that require better oversight or more time to accomplish - more efficiency, or better connection with patients? Identifying your goals, whatever they may be, is hypercritical to knowing what you want.  Pain is just as important which is the next step.

2. Identify your need: Why do you need a behavioral health EHR?

 It is critical to understand your motivations for needing a behavioral health EHR.  What is your challenge with your current software? What are general pains with your business?  Are you losing insurance dollars because of audits or record requests with missing documentation?  Are you struggling with licensing or other concerns? Is there a lack of oversight because you are on paper or a weak system with little reporting or business intelligence tools to get what you need? Is there a department that is inefficient?  Are you on a system but certain aspects of your business are still being done on paper?

3. Evaluate your current Process: What's working today that you wouldn't want to lose?

Is there anything your current vendor is doing right that you would be loath to lose? It is important to establish what is working and make sure you are not taking one step forward and two steps backward.

4. Assign priority

Try to list your pains with your current behavioral health EHR in order of biggest to least. Also, list the things you want to keep in order of importance. This will help you identify the best fitting EHR by how much value it will give you.

5. The Net

Your mental health EHR search needs to be done thoroughly.  Make sure you gather a minimum of two EHR providers to go through. Having three or four would be ideal.  Do an initial demo with each, keeping the demos to 30 minutes or less to narrow down to your top one or two.  

6. Due diligence: Getting References on the Behavioral Health EHR Provider

Make sure you speak to references.  This is an important step many people miss when selecting a behavioral health EHR.  Whether they blindly sign up with a company or whether they discount that company because another competing company discouraged them from continuing to talk with them, make sure you do your due diligence and speak with people that are actually using the software every single day. You should also check their reviews on sites like Capterra and G2Crowd. Look at how many reviews they have and if the majority are good or bad.

7. The Behavioral Health EHR Demo

 Make sure you have in mind some key areas you are looking to improve and have those outlined before the demo to help the presenter know what to focus on.  Your time is precious and it should be focused on the things that will bring you maximum value and enable you to maximize your results with your new software.  This will also help your behavioral health software provider to know the important things they need to be working on and where their customers are looking for help.

8. Your Current Contract

Some contracts have notice clauses that require one to give a certain amount of notice before you may cancel.  This is important to know when thinking about your timeline to transition. Timing your notice with your implementation is key so that you are not paying for two systems longer than you need to.  If your clause is 60 days or less, there isn’t much to worry about. Your new provider can advise you on when the best time will be to give notice. If it is longer than 60 days, you may want to consider giving notice even before you select a new partner.

9. A Good Fit

The partner you choose needs to be a good fit technically, but what about culturally?  Some partners might be more online-tutorial based, some may be support-center based, and others may be account management based.  It’s important to identify what is important to you and what is included. Also, where is the company headed? Most software today is cloud-based and delivered as a service (SAAS). What does their roadmap look like for the next year? How often do they do releases into their product? How are those communicated? How many engineers do they have on their team? Are they full time or part time contractors? Are they based in the US or overseas? This is important to know based on your past experience and deciding on the right fit for your business.

10. Cost vs. Value: What's the value of each option?

 Listing the choices in order, regardless of price, is a great way to help yourself determine what you really want.  Next, you'll want to assign a price to each option. If the price of the first one is worth the value it brings, then your decision was just made for you.  If there is a discrepancy, then you need to think a little harder. One suggestion that is worth trying is calling that number one option and telling them they are the number one option but that their price seems to still be a barrier.  Maybe they can be flexible. Sometimes they can and other times they can’t. It will depend on the situation. If option one cannot make it work, repeating these steps for option two and so forth will help you get the best possible solution for your needs and budget.

Choose a Behavioral Health EHR that best fits your needs

When you're looking for a behavioral health EHR, you should first identify your goals and needs. It doesn't matter how great a mental health EHR software is if it doesn't do what you need it to. Once you've established this, look at your current process and find an EHR that keeps what's currently working for you.

Next, assign priority to the pains and items you want to keep in order of importance. Then make a list of potential EHR vendors and get references on them. The best way to conduct an EHR search is to make it thorough. Then, get a demo! Most, if not all, EHR vendors provide a free demo. If they don't, you probably shouldn't consider that vendor. You can schedule a no-hassel demo with us here.

Check your current contract to ensure it doesn't have any clauses preventing you from leaving without sufficient notice. If you're able to leave your current contract, don't do so until you know the new vendor is a good fit technically and culturally. If it is going to save you time and give you peace of mind, it will be worth the switch.

July 24, 2017

Insurance Reimbursements: Clinicians Are the Key

Clinicians are incredibly important to a treatment center’s overall success. Good clinicians can truly make, or break a treatment facility. Your patient’s satisfaction depends in many ways on the efforts of your clinicians, as they are the ones providing the help and care. Additionally, clinicians play a central role in helping your treatment center get the correct insurance reimbursements.

Although your clinicians may be your strongest ally when working with people, they can potentially be harmful to your treatment center’s finances.

Addiction treatment is very expensive to say the least. The necessary care provision is very intensive and complicated. Although the ideals and principles behind care centers are very altruistic in nature, good intentions alone cannot sustain a business. At the end of the day somebody has to pay the rent, utilities, and wage costs associated with these centers.

The combination of the expensive treatment fees, and the likely economic instability of the patients, leaves us with a difficult question: Who is going to pay for the patient’s recovery? In many cases the answer is insurance companies.

For obvious reasons, insurance companies manage their funds very carefully. Although they are obligated to help in varying extents depending the situation, it is within their own interest to ensure that they do not pay any more than required. To ensure fairness in distribution of these funds, there are specific guidelines and prerequisites that are attached to these obligations, and if not met, they are under no obligation to pay.

 

“Herein lies the danger: regardless of the reality of a patient’s needs, the funds provided by an insurance company are determined from your clinician’s notes and records.” (Stevens, Matt)

 

The only way to prove that patients qualify for higher insurance reimbursements is through the notes taken by clinicians that worked with them in their recovery

Imagine that as a treatment facility owner you have a clinician that is great at working with patients, and successful in helping them recover, but bad at note taking and other routine tasks involved in their day to day work. Would this be a clinician you want on your team? Although such a clinician has the potential to do a lot of good within the facility, if they do not make it a priority to help the center receive its merited insurance reimbursements, they will likely be a sizable liability to the center’s overall success.

Here at Alleva we designed our EMR with solutions to these issues in mind. Through innovations such as word minimums on all notes taken, medical term word banks, and deadline alert systems, clinicians will be guided to take their notes in such a way that the facility they work for can qualify for their appropriate share of insurance reimbursements.

Although the solutions are very simple, they have considerable value. When applied, these small changes will save any given treatment facility thousands of dollars in lost insurance reimbursements. But most importantly, they allow the center to focus on what really matters; the people under their care.

 

 

Stevens, Matt. "How to Clinician-Proof Your Treatment Center For an Audit." Recovery Brands. Recovery Brands, 18 July 2017. Web. 22 July 2017.<http://blog.recoverybrands.com/improve-documentation-emr/>.

June 29, 2017

Incarceration vs. Rehabilitation

Incarceration vs RehabilitationIncarceration vs rehabilitation methods have been hotly debated over the years and recent research has emerged that has greatly improved practices and progress in treating addiction as a health issue.  However, some practices are in direct conflict with what others consider proper care.

With rising opioid use across the country, there are those who would argue that in-jail treatment offers the best solution.

Inimai Chettiar and Grainne Dunne of the NYU School of Law responded to the incarceration vs rehabilitation argument, stating “We should certainly improve treatment in jails. But by focusing on building drug treatment infrastructure inside the criminal justice system, we further institutionalize its placement there. This reinforces the belief that people battling addiction deserve punishment — undoing years of progress to understand addiction as a health issue.”

Even improving treatment within the justice system could not be enough to rehabilitate those struggling with addiction.  The consequences, stigmas, and stereotypes that accompany someone who has gone through the justice system are often too difficult to overcome and while they may receive some medical or therapeutic treatment, rehabilitation includes being accepted back into society and that often cannot occur.

Treatment should be given in the appropriate environment, facilities that are designed for rehabilitation, not punishment.

In the rehabilitation vs incarceration debate, what do you support? Comment below.

June 20, 2017

Anti-Drug Laws

The number of laws in place to discourage illicit drug abuse have only increased with time. However, despite the array of anti-drug laws put in place for its prevention, Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing rather than decreasing
The expected decrease in drug abuse associated with the creation of more laws and anti-drug related institutions has not proven to be certain. In reality, drug abuse has continued to increase despite the implementation of these new systems. This is not to suggest that the establishment of institutions in any way causing an increase in drug abuse; rather that it has been unsuccessful in achieving its primary purpose of diminishing such abuse.
Never has the attempt to stop the consumption of illegal substances been made more official as during the prohibition. Although the prohibited substance in that time was alcohol rather than opiates and narcotics like we see modernly, the lesson learned is entirely applicable. The institutional opposition was so official that it was even included as an amendment in the constitution, which is more powerful and binding than any law. Even with the political strength that uniquely the constitution can bring, the best estimates are that the consumption of alcohol only declined by thirty to fifty percent during the prohibition.
Half, and potentially seventy percent of the designed sobriety was unsuccessful even when backed by arguably the most powerful political document in this nation. However, this bleak statistic does not suggest that the problem is unconquerable. Rather, it suggests that fifty to seventy percent of progress towards a drug-free society will not be achieved by the creation and enforcement of anti-drug laws.
 

June 19, 2017

Recovery Reinvented

The Governor and First Lady of North Dakota have announced that on September 26th 2017 there will be a day of “facilitated conversations” about addiction recovery. The event, Recovery Reinvented, will be a conference centered on teaching people that addiction is a chronic disease that is treatable.

They plan on bringing together state and national experts in recovery to share innovative practices that will directly help people take action against their addictions. It is going to be a very personable and applicable event, North Dakota’s First Lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum even plans on sharing her experiences as a recovered alcoholic to help others that are similarly struggling. This event should have a very positive effect on increasing awareness and helping improve the national addiction epidemic within their state.

It is great to see that North Dakota is taking action against addiction especially keeping in mind that they have a relatively less severe problem with drug addiction. Hopefully other states will follow their example, and work towards raising awareness and providing solutions within their own spheres of influence.

June 13, 2017

Who Suffers From PTSD?

Who suffers from PTSD?

Often when we think of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, the first image that comes to mind is a veteran haunted by nightmares of painful memories that he or she experienced in their service on the battlefield. This image is not mistaken: many veterans suffer from the effects of PTSD after their return to normal life.

However, PTSD is not a veteran-exclusive ailment. It is a psychiatric disorder that can occur after any traumatic experience. War is obviously filled with a lot of trauma; hence many who experienced the horrors of war will experience the effects of PTSD. However, it can also follow other painful experiences like natural disasters, serious accidents, sexual or physical assault, severe illness, or even witnessing another person experience these traumatic situations.

Everybody will experience something painful in their life, however, the majority of people will recover and be able to move on within a few weeks or months following the episode. Unfortunately, many will develop PTSD and will subsequently be harrowed by the memory of this painful experience.

 

Just like any other disease, physical or mental in nature, the effects of PTSD are very real and painful. Whether experienced because of a traumatic experience in war, or in civilian life, its effects truly hinder the individual’s ability to function. However, just like any other disease, there are professionals who know of remedies and cures to tame and eventually conquer its effects.

If you're a clinician looking to help people with this affliction, our mental health EMR can help. You can see the benefits and features of our software here. Or fill out the form below to schedule a demo. 

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June 12, 2017

Everything You Know About Recovery is Wrong

Innovators, like Johann Hari, help us understand better those who struggle with addiction and helps us challenge our preconceived ideas on the criminalization of drug use. He helps us ask the hard questions. What is addiction? How does addiction happen? How can we help those who struggle from addiction to achieve recovery? And he gives us surprising solutions as he makes striking statements like, "the opposite of addiction is connection".

 

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