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La Alianza Para Reducir la Insuficiencia de Tratemiento de Adicción en Puerto Rico: Aportación Intersectorial Para Abordar Un Problema Complejo

Puerto Rico’s huge addiction treatment gap helps fuel the island’s HIV and Hepatitis C epidemics. The development of the Puerto Rico Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Alliance, a multisectorial organization, begins to address this complex bio-psycho-social public health problem. With emphasis on strategies of efficiency, improving professional capacity and quality of service, communications and education efforts towards key decision makers and the general public, and a research component looking to demonstrate the health system’s high costs of unattended addiction, the Alliance strives to increase the availability of quality, evidence based treatment on the island. The session will highlight some initial outcomes and remaining challenges and will showcase the organization’s choice of medication assisted treatment as the main treatment modality to approach the island’s addiction problem.

This session will show attendees how we helped develop a multisectorial organization to face a complex bio-psycho-social problem, such as addiction. It will highlight some initial outcomes and remaining challenges and will showcase the organization’s choice of medication assisted treatment as the main treatment modality to approach the island’s addiction problem.

La enorme brecha en acceso a tratamiento de adicción en Puerto Rico ayuda a alimentar las epidemias de VIH y Hepatitis C en la isla. La creación de la Alianza para Reducir la Insuficiencia de Tratamiento de Adicción en Puerto Rico, una organización intersectorial, intenta abordar este complejo problema bio-psico-social de salud pública. Haciendo énfasis en estrategias de eficiencia, mejoramiento de la capacidad profesional y de la calidad de servicio, con esfuerzos de comunicación y educativos hacia personas claves del gobierno y el público en general, y con un componente de investigación que ilustre sobre los altos costos al sistema de salud de la adicción desatendida, la Alianza se esfuerza para aumentar la disponibilidad de tratamiento de calidad y basado en evidencia en la isla. Esta sesión señalará los logros iniciales y los retos que enfrentamos y enfocará en el tratamiento asistido por medicamentos, modalidad escogida por la organización para atender el problema de adicción de la isla.

17th ANNUAL LATINO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE CONFERENCE

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Wednesday
Henry Acosta, MA, MSW, LSW
Executive Director, National Resource Center for Hispanic Mental Health, and Chair, Alliance for Latino Behavioral Health Workforce Development

Gustavo Loera, EdD
Director of Educational Research and DevelopmentMental Health America of Los AngelesWorkshop Title: "Alliance for Latino Behavioral Health Workforce Development: A National Movement in the Making"

Matthew Mock, PhD
Professor of Psychology/Private Practice, John F. Kennedy UniversityWorkshop Title: "Latinos in Film: Mirrors of the Past, Forecasting of the Future"

Thursday
Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, CAS, FASAM
Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA)Workshop Title: "National Substance Abuse Services for Latinos"

Friday
Teresa Chapa, PhD
Senior Policy Advisor, Mental Health Office of Minority HealthWorkshop Title: "Elimination of Behavioral Health Disparities for Latinos: A Plan for Improving Overall Care and Achieving Health Equity...Or Steps Towards Achieving Equity"


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