Video: Corey Waller discusses addiction treatment in prisons
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Waller talked about his successes in other states to bring to Michigan, creating cohorts of prisoners who want treatment and how to set prisoners up for success outside prison.
“I get asked a lot if there is one core aspect of addiction that we need to impart onto the community… It is really how we describe addiction. I think it is important to recognize that we don’t define addiction based on the presence or absence of a substance. We define it based on the behaviors associated with obtaining or using the substance. So if we can identify this population and stabilize their behaviors, then we don’t have to define it as active addiction. We can talk about it as remission and they can go on about their lives.”
5 Things Michigan: US Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Behavioral health, MDHHS update
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This may be the calm before the storm.
Thursday is the last published day on the US Supreme Court calendar to release opinions from its current term (though they have a few more weeks for orders). It’s a term that saw a meaningful challenge to the ACA last November. It was a case many in the media thought could not be overturned, based on the line of questioning from the justices. But for that to happen, Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh both will need to break from the 6-3 conservative majority to craft a majority opinion with the three more liberal justices. That seems a tough reach.
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Senate Democrats talk about child care, partisanship and mental health inpatient access Patrick Jones | Jun 2, 2021
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Sen. Jeff Irwin, member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Community Health/Human Services, Sen. Winnie Brinks, minority vice chair of the Senate Health Policy and Human Services Committee, and Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr., minority vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, offered their insights on the panel.
The panelists all highlighted their focus on creating more inpatient mental health beds for children and adults. According to Hertel Jr., the lack of psychiatric beds in Michigan leads to people waiting for proper care in an unfitting environment, like the general hospital. This causes them to stay even longer in the psychiatric inpatient setting. Hertel Jr. said: