Whole Health Campaign Releases Recommendations for Addressing Substance Use and Mental Illness in the Health Care Reform Process - Caron Drug & Alcohol Treatment Centers

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The Whole Health Campaign (WHC), an unprecedented collaboration among more than 107 mental illness and substance use prevention, treatment, research and recovery organizations, has created a series of new policy papers outlining the urgent message that substance use and mental illness issues be considered a health care policy priority during the reform process……

The papers focus on access, quality, choice and cost of care for people with these disorders and their family members. The series of policy papers discuss and provide specific recommendations for the education of health care professionals, wellness promotion and chronic disease prevention initiatives, improving health care leadership, access to affordable and timely universal coverage, financing health care reform, integrating health care and addressing disparities. The papers can be downloaded from the WHC website…..

Whole Health Campaign Releases Recommendations for Addressing Substance Use and Mental Illness in the Health Care Reform Process - Caron Drug & Alcohol Treatment Centers