Who Certifies drug addiction dallas Treatment
November 22nd, 2008
Who Certifies drug addiction dallas Treatment
Who will certify treatment? Training personnel to act as managed care reviewers has been a common problem for both the AOD and mental health fields. Dual disorder review will require co-trained personnel who have either certification or some sort of documented training in both areas. Since even finding co-trained staff who can operate dual disorder treatment programs is a problem, where will these extra co-trained staff come from? The field of psychiatry has been increasing its requirements regarding addiction and now has available a national board subcertification in addiction psychiatry. Each field must persistently move toward better training, at all levels, in the other field.
Comprehensiveness
What are comprehensive dual disorder treatment services? A seamless set of services is needed, ranging from prevention to highly secure locked units capable of dealing with clients who have violent psychoses accompanied by alcohol withdrawal. But how comprehensive can such a system afford to be? For example, will inten sive case management, sober residential placement, and integrated vocational rehabilitation be considered as core services for persistently mentally ill, dually disordered persons? Currently, many such individuals in HMO-type systems rapidly use up their limited AOD and mental health benefits, then devolve to the public system. How comprehensive will private and HMO-type services be, and who will bear the costs if such services are inadequate for complex conditions?
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