[inaudible conversations] thank you from everybody and welcome back. we have a thrilling panel coming right up. i think the next session gets right at the heart of everything we are talking about. my name is mike green and executive director of the truman national security project. we re very proud today to introduce treatment and is led by a remarkable group of women including combat leader smart bargains nation and hardly supported by a larger number of men in the truman project who also have combat experience myself included. i served in iraq and afghanistan and i don t know when the issue is settled for me. i m supposed to be an objective moderator but to put my cards on the table, my sister is currently serving with the station as it attempted in the new york police department. she could kick my asked. outside of that for sure. you know over two years on the sharp end title field i ve seen more than enough examples of women establishing themselves including providing t
briefly, what does the body of scientific evidence show regarding effect i haveness of met doen and buprenorphine in treatment of opioid abuse disorders? the research has shown, has shown it not just for methadone and buprenorphine, and naloxone, as part of a comprehensive program for treatment of opioid addiction are quite effective and significantly improve outcomes of individuals being able to stay on one hand ab stinent from the drug or to decrease likelihood of relapsing, also protects them against adverse outcome such as overdose. so in light of those studies you also said in your testimony that existing evidence based prevention and treatment strategies are highly underutilized across the united states, and last week we had an expert tell the panel that very few patients with opioid addiction today receive treatments that have been proven most effective. he was talking about the rapid detox, followed by abstinence based treatment. i wonder if you can help understan
treatment of opioid abuse disorders? the research has shown, has shown it not just for methadone and buprenorphine, and naloxone, as part of a comprehensive program for treatment of opioid addiction are quite effective and significantly improve outcomes of individuals being able to stay on one hand ab stinent from the drug or to decrease likelihood of relapsing, also protects them against adverse outcome such as overdose. so in light of those studies you also said in your testimony that existing evidence based prevention and treatment strategies are highly underutilized across the united states, and last week we had an expert tell the panel that very few patients with opioid addiction today receive treatments that have been proven most effective. he was talking about the rapid detox, followed by abstinence based treatment. i wonder if you can help understand this. why do we have a situation where people are not getting evidence based treatment? it is a complex problem.
try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. so the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. they began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, you re invited to attend. at the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. the combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say upper body strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66% of the very good performers were men and 34% were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92% were men and 8% were women. so this initial screening test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell int
i should have asked how many civilians were in the audience. yes, excellent. [laughter] host: it is no exaggeration to say there is a wealth of knowledge and experience in this room, and that s why we re going to try to make this more of a conversation than a series of presentations. we re looking forward to that. this discussion is really about the central question of unit cohesion and leadership. in the battlefield, especially in the close fight. we have with us four people that i think provide a great perspective across the board. dr. megan mckenzie from the university of sydney. she s a senior lecturing in the government. the center for international security at the university of sydney. research crosses gender studies , security studies and , international development. she s published in top journals, including security studies. her first book, female soldiers in sierra leone, and the newest book, beyond the military and myth women can t fight, debunks ss the belief th