The COAT Center

08/11/2020

Looking to hire a part-time medical billing/coding person. Credentialing experience would be a PLUS.

05/26/2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/18/854729610/changes-in-opioid-supply-create-new-risks-as-stay-at-home-rules-ease

The disruption in the illegal opioid trade had varying impacts around the country. As stay-at-home orders lift, that creates different risks of overdose that public health is trying to manage.

05/25/2020

05/20/2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/health/coronavirus-deaths-of-despair/index.html

As many as 75,000 Americans could die because of drug or alcohol misuse and su***de as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to an analysis conducted by the national public health group Well Being Trust.

05/14/2020

https://www.asam.org/Quality-Science/publications/magazine/read/asam-weekly-editorial-comment/2020/05/04/editorial-comment-5-5-2020-guest-editorial?utm_source=Referral&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Infomz-%20Google%20analytics&_zs=ilq3a&_zl=VGE62

In response to our invitation for guest editorials, Dr. Timmen Cermak, past President of the California Society of Addiction Medicine, submitted the following essay on the symbolic and real confinements experienced by a child in an alcoholic family, employing parallels with the current pandemic publ...

05/13/2020

Mental health treatment is the backbone of our process.

A shadow pandemic of mental illness is emerging, but America's behavioral health system is unprepared, ill-equipped and already on the brink of financial collapse in many places.

05/07/2020

https://www.thedailybeast.com/opioid-deaths-surge-during-coronavirus-in-americas-overdose-capitals

Authorities nationwide are reporting an uptick in fatal opioid overdoses during social distancing.

04/28/2020

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/substance-use-stigma-and-society/202004/treating-substance-use-disorders-in-the-era-covid-19

The pandemic is challenging those with SUDs, but Dr. Roy shows the way forward.

02/12/2020

01/23/2020

Addiction does NOT discriminate.

Increasingly, older adults are misusing alcohol and drugs – raising their risks for falls, fractures and other emergencies.