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state or reflect those of AMH.  
  This Weeks Highlights: 
1.  Community Living Options: Building Housing, Homes & Communities
Training
Substance Use and Brain Development: Impacts and Interventions
Conference
3.  NIDA UNVEILS ITS FIRST CONSUMER PUBLICATION TO EXPLAIN THE SCIENCE
OF ADDICTION
4.  Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (Grant Competition)
5.  Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 28: The National Rural
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network Awards for Excellence 2004, Submitted and
Award-Winning Papers
 
1.  Community Living Options: Building Housing, Homes & Communities
Training 
 March 1, 2007 - Best Western Mill Creek Inn, SalemMarch 16, 2007 -
Hampton Inn, MedfordMarch 23, 2007 - Comfort Suites Airport, RedmondThis
workshop is for mental health service providers and administrators,
housing providers, residential service developers, consumers, family
members, advocates, and others who want to address housing needs of
people with serious mental illness, including those with co-occurring
addiction disorders or other health care needs. No Registration FEE     
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    7 CEUs approved by ACCBO
 To register, E-MAIL this form to particia.alderson at state.or.us
503-945-5760 or fax to her at 503-378-8467 For workshop content
questions: Stephanie Tyrer, 503-945-6811, stephanie.tyrer at state.or.us
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 Substance Use and Brain Development: Impacts and Interventions
ConferencePlease consider attending this exciting conference, and
forward along to others who may be interested. Just a few days left to
sign up for early-bird registration!
Anyone interested in brain development and substance abuse should
consider making the investment to attend this conference. The presenters
are internationally recognized for their work in the field.   Problem
gambling is included in Ken Winters' talk (Winters is an adolescent
substance abuse researcher).
 
Preliminary session information is now online at
http://www.healthybraindevelopment.com/pages/1-Program/5-descriptions.php
Please contact Sandy Moses (sandy.moses at co.lane.or.us)  if you have
further questions about the conference.
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 NIDA UNVEILS ITS FIRST CONSUMER PUBLICATION TO EXPLAIN THE SCIENCE OF
ADDICTION
Booklet's Release Timed to Complement Collaborative Documentary on
Addiction to Air on HBO.  

"Drugs, Brains, and Behavior:  The Science of Addiction" was unveiled
today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the
National Institutes of Health.  The 30-page full-color booklet explains
in layman's terms how science has revolutionized the understanding of
drug addiction as a brain disease that affects behavior.  NIDA hopes
this new publication will help reduce stigma against addictive
disorders.

"Thanks to science, our views and our responses to drug abuse have
changed dramatically, but many people today still do not understand why
people become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster
compulsive drug abuse," said NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow.  "This
booklet aims to fill that knowledge gap by providing scientific
information about the disease of drug addiction in language that is
easily understandable to the public."

The "Science of Addiction" booklet discusses the reasons people take
drugs, why some people become addicted while others do not, how drugs
work in the brain, and how addiction can be prevented and treated.  Like
diabetes, asthma or heart disease, drug addiction is a chronic disease
that can be managed successfully.  Treatment helps to counteract
addiction's powerful disruptive effects and helps people regain control
of their lives.  The new booklet points out that just as with other
chronic diseases, relapses can happen.  The publication further explains
that relapse is not a signal of treatment failure -- rather, it
indicates that treatment should be reinstated or adjusted to help the
addict fully recover.

The new publication was unveiled today at a press briefing for the
upcoming HBO documentary called "Addiction", to air Thursday, March 15
from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.  The 90-minute program, produced in
partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), is aimed at helping Americans understand
addiction as a treatable brain disease, as well as spotlighting new
medical advancements. 

The documentary will explore many elements of drug and alcohol
addiction, through the eyes of those who are addicted and those of the
scientific experts working to better understand and treat this
devastating disease.  

Abuse and addiction to alcohol, nicotine and illegal substances cost
Americans upwards of half a trillion dollars a year, considering their
combined medical, economic, criminal, and social impact.  In addition,
every year, abuse of illicit drugs and alcohol contributes to the deaths
of more than 100,000 Americans, while tobacco is linked to an estimated
440,000 deaths per year in the United States.  People of all ages suffer
the harmful consequences of drug abuse and addiction. 

Drug addiction is considered a brain disease because drugs change the
brain in structure and in function.  For most people, the initial
decision to take drugs is voluntary, but over time drug abuse can cause
changes to the brain that impair a person's self-control and ability to
make sound decisions, while sending intense impulses to take drugs.  

A PDF copy of "The Science of Addiction" can be downloaded at the NIDA
website: http://www.drugabuse.gov
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 Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (Grant Competition)The notice inviting
applications for the Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse program competition
was published in the Federal Register on February 9, 2007, and the
application became available to the public today.

The application package can be downloaded from either of the following
Web sites:  OSDFS's Web Page:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/dvpalcoholabuse/applicant.html or  
Grants.gov Web site: www.grants.gov 
 
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5.  Now Available:  Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 28: The
National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network Awards for Excellence
2004, Submitted and Award-Winning PapersThe Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announces the availability of
Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 28, The National Rural Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Network Awards for Excellence 2004, Submitted and
Award-Winning Papers. This TAP presents seven papers submitted to the
2004 National Rural Alcohol and Drug Abuse Network (NRADAN) Awards for
Excellence. Each paper describes effective and innovative models of
treatment and prevention services in rural populations. This publication
seeks to promote and showcase research addressing the unique and special
challenges of providing treatment services to individuals in rural areas
and their families.

The first place paper describes the effectiveness of a self-funded drug
court. The second place paper highlights effective strength- and
home-based substance abuse treatment and recovery support programs. The
third place paper presents a substance abuse prevention program for
lower income mothers. The topics of the other four papers include
treatment outcomes of people who use methamphetamine, a discussion of
faith- and community-based reentry services, a comparison of people who
use drugs in rural and very rural areas, and a description of an
electronic version of the Addiction Severity Index.
Order your FREE copy of TAP 28 online or, contact SAMHSA's National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI). Ask for
publication order number BKD552.
View this publication online in PDF format. 
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  TRAININGS
 
Statewide and some national trainings are listed on the training
calendar on the AMH Website located at
http://egov.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/training/main.shtml.  Please
review this site occasionally for available trainings.  Each week, the
Listserv will highlight the most recent trainings that have been listed
for your convenience.  
 
Newest Listings to the AMH Training Calendar
 
New listings in March: 
(http://egov.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/training/main.shtml#mar2007)
State Management Excellence Summit 2007 (Las Vegas, NV) City and County
Performance Summit: Implementing Performance Management Systems in City
and County Government. (Las Vegas, NV) Online Webcast:  Weight Gain with
the Atypcials: How to Screen, Monitor and Intervene Strategic Planning
for Government; Create Strategic Plans that Link Organization
Performance and Mission (Arlington, VA) Change Management for
Government: Learn to Effectively Manage Change with your Agency
(Arlington, VA)New listings in April: 
(http://egov.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/training/main.shtml#April)
Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis (Lane County/LaneCare) Toward
Meaningful Sobriety: An Introduction to Process Work with Addictions
(PSU) 40th Annual Suicide Prevention Conference (New Orleans, LA) Brief
Strategic Family Therapy Training Level 1 (Tampa Florida) Motivational
Interviewing (Lewis and Clark) Problem Gambling Counseling (Lewis and
Clark) HIV, TB and Infectious Diseases (Chemeketa Community College
(CCC)) New Tools to Work More Effectively with Your Latino Clients
(Hispanic Interagency Team) 12th Annual DUII Multi-Disciplinary Training
Conference (ODOT) Illness Management and Recovery (CCC) First Annual
Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) Summit (San
Antonio, TX) 22nd Annual Conference Psychiatric Nursing (Philadelphia,
PA)  
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