Mental health recovery: addiction has come Besides, the cavemen also ate fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.

If you are after weight reduction, you might need to minimize your intake of sweet fruits, virtually all fruits are allowed in the diet.

Meanwhile, all vegetables aside from starchy ones just like potato and sweet potato are also allowed. Nuts and seeds that are naturally available can also be consumed. Promised economic recovery and healthcare reform legislation are opportunities for meaningful financial commitments to mental health and addictions services and mental healthcare organizations are offering a practical actionable agenda.

The need for behavioral health services in primary care is widely accepted.

Did you know that the integration of primary care services in behavioral health settings remains controversial despite the fact that individuals with serious mental illness appear to have the worst mortality rates in the public health system. Mental healthcare organizations are actively pursuing single points of accountability to enhance continuity of care for this underserved population. Basically the integration of primary care services in behavioral health settings. Besides, the Healthcare Collaborative Project brings gether behavioral health and primary care organizations offering a bi directional approach for care. Costbasedplus’ financing that supports service excellence.

We need a workforce of skilled staff delivering nationally recognized practices within organizations that live by the rule If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it.For mental healthcare organizations, healthcare reform is an opportunity to bring parity to public mental health services by ending the second class status of community mental health and addiction providers in America’s safety net.

People seek for and deserve quality services but quality services depend on skilled staff.

Low salaries have created -and are perpetuating -a recruitment, retention, and quality cr for behavioral healthcare. As a result, we have large numbers of individuals with treatable mental illnesses and addictions in our overburdened emergency rooms, in jails, and on the streets without any access to services that can engage them, treat them and return them to work.

State plans to cover the uninsured have all but disappeared and federal universal coverage plans may well be incremental.

Federal mental health funding stream dedicated to mental health and integrated treatment services for the uninsured.

By the way, the uninsured have exceptionally high rates of untreated mental illnesses with cooccurring addiction disorders and there’s no safety net. We must stop denying our economy productive taxpayers and wasting human lives. Eligibility for social security disability for people with addiction disorders. Then, addiction has come so we must advocate that people with addiction disorders be eligible for disability support. Just think for a moment. So there’s growing public awareness and acceptance of addiction as a chronic, day asthma, and hypertension and yes, mental illness.

Funds to support investments by behavioral healthcare organizations in information technology.

We and those we serve can’t continue to be marginalized.

Healthcare reform and economic recovery will depend upon the expansion of information technologies and behavioral health providers must be included. Behavioral healthcare organizations that move forward to automate their clinical systems get no support, funding, or technical assistance, we talk about information technology and service transparency. Now we must adequately fund and support the spread of these interventions to communities across the country. Look, there’re mental health and addiction prevention and education programs that work. These include researchbased prevention initiatives that reduce the risk of childhood serious emotional disturbance by treating maternal depression, the ‘NurseFamily’ Partnership Program that has an array of consistent positive effects across multiple trials, and Mental Health Aid -a ‘evidencebased’ mental health literacy program.