Quality of life and well-being following inpatient and partial hospitalization treatment for opioid use disorder.

Treatment of opioid use disorder often begins with brief intensive inpatient or outpatient programs. Given the high relapse rates following intensive treatment, it is important to determine factors that lead to success post-discharge. Incorporating assessment during and early post-discharge may help determine such factors.

Responsible Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain: Interpreting the CDC Guideline, Understanding New Rhode Island Regulations.

New Rhode Island regulations require physicians and other licensed practitioners to make significant adjustments to comply with new requirements for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain. Responding to the opioid epidemic, the new rules are intended to improve patient safety by changing physicians' prescribing patterns. However, the new rules may overlook the importance of treatment-access problems and the importance of buprenorphine products for treating pain and opioid dependence.

Treating Pain in an Established Patient: Sifting Through the Guidelines.

The CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, published last March, provided major steps toward bringing the medical community together to address the opioid epidemic in the U.S. However, the Guideline focuses primarily on treatment of new inductions into opioid therapy for pain.

Developing a Fitbit-supported lifestyle physical activity intervention for depressed alcohol dependent women.

Purpose: Women in alcohol treatment are more likely to relapse when in unpleasant, negative emotional states. Given the demonstrated benefits of exercise for decreasing depression, negative affect, and urges to drink, helping women engage in a lifestyle physical activity (LPA) intervention in early recovery may provide them a tool they can utilize "in the moment" in order to cope with negative emotional states and alcohol craving when relapse risk is highest. New digital fitness technologies (e.

Alcohol treatment outcomes following discharge from a partial hospital program.

Background: Thousands of individuals in the United States seek alcohol treatment each year, typically in outpatient settings. Partial hospital programs provide a high level of structured, individualized outpatient care for individuals who are in treatment for alcohol use disorder. Previous research in other outpatient and inpatient settings has found that psychological distress, pain, and aftercare utilization are associated with treatment outcomes.

Clinical assessments and maternal judgments: concurrent and predictive relationships.

Mothers and clinicians, both of whom play key roles in securing mental health services for children, have been found to differ in their ratings of children's adjustment. While this finding is confirmed by the present study, ratings made by social workers based on a structured interview with mothers prior to their children's kindergarten entry indicate a number of significant relationships with measures of children's school and behavioral adjustment four years later.