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Tennessee Pastors Network Calls on Legislators to Reject Sunday Sales of Alcohol

Tennessee Pastors Network Calls on Legislators to Reject Sunday Sales of Alcohol

“We are praying that the legislators will focus on the dangers of fueling even more addiction and harm to Tennessee families from these products rather than … TNPN is a state chapter of the American Pastors Network (APN, www.americanpastorsnetwork.net), the largest national network dedicated to …
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Future of Behavioral Rehabilitation Market including key players Acadia Healthcar, Universal …

It also covers various types of segmentation such as by geography [North America, Europe, China, Japan, Southeast Asia & India], by product /end user type [Inpatient, Residential & Outpatient], by applications [Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Substance Abuse Disorders, Personality Disorders …
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Bill deals with OD treatments

The two have introduced a measure intended to promote medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction to people taken to emergency rooms for overdoses. It is supported by the American College of Emergency Physicians. Often when overdose victims are treated in hospital emergency rooms, health …
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Q & A: What Should We Be Doing About the Opioid Crisis?

Kennedy has also tried to draw the connection between addiction and mental health. While in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kennedy sponsored legislation that requires insurance companies to treat mental illness, depression and addiction the same as they treat illnesses of the body. The bill, known as the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, was signed into law in 2008. (Source: WebMD
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Diagnostic errors top ECRI Top 10 patient safety concerns list

Diagnostic errors, which approximately one out of every 20 adult patients experience every year, topped the list of the ECRI Institute’s top ten patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations in 2018.
Diagnostic errors can have unexpected and serious repercussions, according to the report, including care gaps, repeat testing, unnecessary procedures and patient harm.
“Diagnostic e
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