PULSE EXECUTIVE EDITION is a free service of the Centre for Community Change International, selecting links to reports, articles, major news stories and Internet resources from CCCI's PULSE news service for leaders of mental health and consumer advocacy organizations. PULSE is researched, edited and designed by Bill Davis.
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Medscape Newsletters
Overview of newsletters available from Medscape in their "Psychiatry and Mental Health" section. These are all subscription (fee-based) newsletters, though a selection of articles is routinely made available for free (links to which appear often in PULSE). You can click on the title of any of the newsletters to go to an index of free articles available from the past year, though as with all Medscape resources, viewing these pages requires registration, which is free - and highly recommended. PULSE subscribers may be especially interested in The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly, The Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory & Application and Mental Health Weekly.
Will Buprenorphine Usher in New Era for Opiate Treatment? Article in Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly at Medscape on the FDA's approval of buprenorphine, which "means that opiate-dependent patients for the first time will be able to access treatment in office-based settings with primary care physicians using a narcotic-based, maintenance therapy drug." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].Recovery: The Emergence of New Life from the Depths of Winter
The current issue of the fine Networks newsletter from the Canadian Mental Health Association, featuring four articles - Recovery: A Changing Environment ("The challenge to the mental health field is to support consumers by providing an environment that will.... enable them to live a satisfying, hopeful and contributing life"), Defining Recovery ("What do consumers expect and what is expected of mental health service providers when we talk about recovery?"), The Road to Recovery: A Personal Journey by Jean Johnson, and Shaping a Recovery Philosophy, based on the recovery philosophy "being the central testing point and guideline for proposals for change" adopted by the nine regional Mental Health Implementation Task Forces in Ontario. (Adobe Acrobat format)Making Gains: Research, Recovery and Renewal in Mental Health and Addictions
Information at the CAMH web site on a conference to be held September 28 - October 1 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. See also the call for papers and presentations (Acrobat format).