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A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis in Caldwell County, North Carolina [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

County governments are struggling to manage the opioid crisis. The homeless population has tripled with over half of this population suffering from untreated drug addiction and mental health issues. County budgets are strained as a result. Through a funded grant.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award (U07MC37471) totaling $3M with 0 percent financed with nongovernmental sources. Government. Qualitative study of patient experiences and care observations during agitation events in the emergency department: implications for systems-based practice.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. Government is not the 51st state. He had overdosed due to a combination of alcohol and street drugs. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And then access to those.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. To Susan’s point.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.