2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
2017 Award Recipients
CCSME presented awards in four categories. Please see the attached document for full descriptions. Visionary Leadership Award Mary Susan Haynes, Ph.D. The Hon. Nancy Mills...
Substance Use
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2-1-1 Maine
Dial 2-1-1 or 1-877-463-6207 to be connected to a complete list of support groups in Maine, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They...
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2011 • Complexities of Trauma
Addiction and Trauma
From the A3 breakout session led by John O’Brien, PhD.
Addiction Resource
Addiction Resource is an educational website whose goal is to provide a wealth of information to help better educate people about substance use, and motivate...
Addressing Co-Occurring Disorders in Non-Traditional Service Settings | SAMHSA
A white paper that discusses the treatment of co-occurring disorders in settings outside substance abuse and mental health systems. Describes how primary health care, law...
Addressing Tobacco Among Individuals with a Mental Illness or Addiction
This paper summarizes literature and discusses how treatment for tobacco can no longer be ignored in mental-health and addiction-treatment settings.
Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders: Improving Self-Care and Reducing Harm
From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.
Advancing the Dialogue: Medication and Mental Illness
In his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker investigates the astonishing rise in the number of people enrolled in government disability due to mental...
Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
A weekly newsletter featuring in-depth information and analysis on fundamental issues, policy changes, new legislation, research findings, and business news for managers and directors in...
Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine (AAMHS)
The mission of AAMHS (also known as the Alliance) is to represent its membership while advancing mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment and...
Assessment of Adolescents With Complex Issues: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.
Bangor Area Recovery Network (BARN)
BARN is a recovery center completely run by volunteers, which offers addiction recovery support to local individuals while also standing with them as community allies...
Behavioral Health and Justice Involved Populations | SAMHSA
A presentation that discusses the impact of behavioral health on the American population as well as the criminal justice system. Examines the changes that are...
Center for Applied Sciences (CENAPS)
Get quality information about addiction, recovery, and relapse prevention. Easy to understand and use. Make great handouts. Get info for school papers.
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2011 • Complexities of Trauma
Children, Trauma, and the Impact of Substance Abuse
From the C2 breakout session led by Don Burke, MS Ed, and Amy Stevenson, MS Ed.
Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Trainer’s Manual
The trainer’s manual is a basic curriculum on co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The course covers twelve core competency content areas, each divided...
Conference Materials
2016 • Beyond the Basics in Suicide Prevention
Coming Out and Substance Abuse
For over four decades, and in spite of reports of elevated risk of suicidal behavior for LGBT individuals, little attention has been given to this...
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2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
Conference to discuss possible connection between opiate addiction, mental health
A brief article and video about the conference from WCSH-6. [ult_blockquote]AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — People working in both the mental health and substance abuse...
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2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
Creating a Realistic Checklist — Revised with Input from Workshop Participants
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
Conference Materials
2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety
Creating Trauma-Informed Correctional Care: A Balance of Goals and Environment
From the European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2012.
David Mee-Lee’s Tips and Topics
David Mee-Lee, MD is a leading expert in co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. His monthly blog, “Tips and Topics,” explores subjects and solutions drawn...
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2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
Discrimination and the Opioid Crisis
Nick Szubiak — Integrated Health Consultant, National Council for Behavioral Health — has over 15 years of experience in direct service, administration and clinical supervision....
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2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
Drug Interactions with Tobacco Smoke
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
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2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
Drug treatment need urgent but seems ‘overwhelming,’ federal official says
An article about and photos of the conference in the Kennebec Journal, March 1, 2017 Kimberly Johnson, the director of the federal Center for Substance...
Conference Materials
2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part I
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...
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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part II-a
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...
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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part II-b
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...
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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part III
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...
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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part IV
DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...
Dual Diagnosis Relapse Prevention Monograph: A Report on the Training Initiative 1997–1998
This monograph represents further progress in the effort toward integration of treatment approaches for clients with dual disorders in the State of Maine. It is...
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken...
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2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety
Evaluation Project on Young African-American Men
From “Seeking Safety therapy for men: Clinical and research experiences” in Men and Addictions, 2009.
Faces & Voices of Recovery
Faces & Voices of Recovery is dedicated to organizing and mobilizing the over 23 million Americans in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs,...
Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
The first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health reviews what we know about substance misuse and how you can use that knowledge to...
Fostering Resiliency in Children and Youth: Four Basic Steps for Families, Educators, and Other Caring Adults
From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.
Frequently Asked Questions about Opioid Overdose
This pamphlet includes information on how to identify and what to do in the event of an opioid overdose.
Frequently Asked Questions about Opioid Use Disorder and IMAT
This pamphlet includes information about Opioid Use Disorder and Integrated Medication-Assisted Treatment.
Frequently Asked Questions about Prescription Opioids
This pamphlet includes information on the names of prescription opioids, side effects, risks, and safe use.
General Principles for the Use of Pharmacological Agents to Treat Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders | SAMHSA
Offers general principles to assist in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of pharmacologic approaches to support the recovery of individuals with co-occurring disorders. Covers engagement,...
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | Addiction-Informed Mental Health Services
Rehab and recovery services at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation address co-occurring mental health issues.
How to Safely Store and Get Rid of Medicines
This pamphlet contains information on storage and disposal of medications.
Conference Materials
2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
ICD-10 Codes for Tobacco/Nicotine Dependence and Secondhand Smoke Exposure
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
Identifying and Helping Patients with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: A Guide for Primary Care Providers | SAMHSA
A fact sheet to aid primary care providers in identifying and helping patients with the co-occurring disorders (CODs) of substance abuse and mental disorders. Discusses...
Innovative Solutions for Building Recovery with Alternatives to Psychotropic Medication
A DVD of two keynote presentations in Freeport, Maine.
Integrated Care Models | SAMHSA-HRSA
Evidence, examples, and models supporting primary and behavioral healthcare integration.
Maine Al-Anon Family Groups
Visit the website for a list of meetings. Al-Anon is a fellowship of those who are affected by another’s drinking who come together to share...
Maine Alcoholics Anonymous
207-774-4335 or 1-800-737-6237 | 24 hours | Visit the website for a list of meetings. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women...
Maine Alliance for Addiction Recovery (MAAR)
MAAR is a statewide recovery community organization that organizes people in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction and recovery allies into a unified recovery presence...
Maine Kids: The Way Life Should Be
Knowledge Dissemination Conference: Adolescent Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders | Monograph of Conference Proceedings May 9–10, 2000
Maine Narcotics Anonymous
1-800-974-0062 This website serves the Maine Area of Narcotics Anonymous (MASCNA) and the Eastern Maine Area of Narcotics Anonymous (EMASCNA). They offer a helpline, a...
Maine Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHS)
SAMHS is the single state administrative authority responsible for the planning, development, implementation, regulation, and evaluation of substance abuse and mental health services.
Maine Quality Counts
Maine Quality Counts is a regional healthcare collaborative where the people who get, provide and pay for health care come together to improve health care...
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2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
MaineCare Tobacco Treatment Billing
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
MaineHealth Opioid Use Disorder | Medication-Assisted Treatment
MaineHealth shares your concerns about how the opioid epidemic is affecting our communities. Our providers work to treat pain safely and effectively, while lowering the...
MaineHealth Opioid Use Treatment & Resources
As a clinician, you strive to provide the best evidence-based, patient-centered care to your patients. MaineHealth wants to provide you with up-to-date information about current...
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) | SAMHSA
SAMHSA’s page on medication-assisted treatment.
Mental Health America (MHA)
MHA is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all...
Conference Materials
2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
More must be done to provide drug abuse treatment, get addicts into it, federal official says
An article about and photos of the conference in the Portland Press Herald, March 1, 2017 Kimberly Johnson, the director of the federal Center for...
National Council Shareables and Infographics
The National Council produces lots of original content that is designed to be re-used by everyone to further education and awareness. Here is their resource...
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2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
National expert wants more attention on prescription drugs to fight addiction
A brief article and video about the conference from WCSH-6 [ult_blockquote]AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Despite the record number of drug overdose deaths in Maine,...
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
NIDA’s mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and...
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use...
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2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
National Trends in Substance Use, Misuse and Disorders
Dr. Kimberly Johnson — Director of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — opened the meeting with...
Organizational Measures Of Integrated Services
Background In 2005, preliminary studies were conducted to develop standardized measures of organizational capacity to address psychiatric disorders in addiction treatment programs. The process of...
Portland Recovery Community Center (PRCC)
The PRCC is a safe haven for people in addiction recovery and offers a home for meetings and activities devoted to addiction recovery. It is...
Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness | SAMHSA
SAMHSA’s page on prevention.
Putting Recovery into Practice
This video of Ken Thompson, MD, “Putting Recovery Into Practice,” was filmed at the Acadia Hospital, Multidisciplinary Psychiatric Grand Rounds, on January 13, 2012.
Recovery Month | SAMHSA
Every September, SAMHSA sponsors Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover.
Recovery Perspectives: A Conversation Between People in Recovery and Service Providers
In this compelling presentation, people with lived experience of recovery from co-occurring disorders discuss among themselves, and then with service providers, the issues of most...
Recovery to Practice (RTP) | SAMHSA
Recovery to Practice (RTP) helps behavioral health and general healthcare practitioners improve delivery of recovery-oriented services, supports, and treatment.
Relapse Prevention Therapy Workbook
This Relapse Prevention Therapy Workbook from www.relapse.org is designed for people in recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction who have a history of relapse,...
SBIRT failure: ‘S’ works, ‘BI’ only for low-risk only, and ‘RT’ unknown
From Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly DOI: 10.1002/adaw
Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety is an evidence-based, present-focused counseling model to help people attain safety from trauma and/or substance abuse. It can be conducted in group (any...
Conference Materials
2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety: An Implementation Guide
Excerpt from Substance Abuse Treatment for Youth and Adults: Clinician’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, David W. Springer and Allen Rubin, editors.
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2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety
Seeking Safety: An Intervention for Trauma-Exposed Incarcerated Women?
From Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 13:88–101, 2012.
Selected Papers of William L. White
A collection of articles and monographs authored by William White on the new recovery advocacy movement, recovery management, and recovery-oriented systems of care, intended as...
StartYourRecovery.org
StartYourRecovery.org is a free, confidential resource developed with the input of leading clinicians, experts from the White House and SAMHSA, and people in recovery themselves....
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health...
Substance Abuse Facilities Data/N-SSATS | SAMHSA
The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is an annual census of all substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States, both public and...
Substance Abuse in College
Recognizing, Understanding and Combatting Alcohol & Drug Abuse on Campus
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2017 • Summit on Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorder
Embracing Substance Use Treatment and Recovery in Primary Care – A Community Approach
September 13, 2017 | Summit on Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorder: Embracing Substance Use Treatment and Recovery in Primary Care – A Community Approach...
Support Groups | Maine Medical Center
Maine Medical Center hosts a variety of support groups each month.
Support Group Listings | The Times Record
The Times Record publishes support group listings from throughout the midcoast region of Maine.
Conference Materials
2011 • Complexities of Trauma
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Trauma as a Public Health Crisis and Implications for Human Services
This video is of a keynote address by Ann Jennings, PhD, at the 3rd Annual Co-Occurring Disorders Institute: Complexities of Trauma. The video was filmed...
The Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce
A nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the recruitment, retention, training, and performance of the prevention and treatment workforce in the mental health and addictions sectors...
Conference Materials
2017 • Annual Membership Meeting
The Federal Response to the Opioid Crisis
Dr. Kimberly Johnson — Director of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — discussed a number of...
TIP 42: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders | SAMHSA
Provides substance abuse treatment providers with updated information on co-occurring substance use and mental disorders and advances in treatment for people with co-occurring disorders. Discusses...
TIP 55: Behavioral Health Services for People Who Are Homeless | SAMHSA
Equips those who provide services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who need or are in substance abuse or mental...
Conference Materials
2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
Tobacco Treatment Medication Dosing Chart
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
Conference Materials
2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
Tobacco Treatment Plan
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
Conference Materials
2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment
Tobacco Use Assessment
This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...
Trauma-Informed Practices in Drug Treatment Courts: Essential Approaches that Promote Safety and Success with Justice-Involved Men and Women
A webinar presentation from September 29, 2015.
Treating Your Pain Without Opioids
This pamphlet contains information about treatment alternatives to prescription opioids.
Treatment of Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders: The Application of Best Practice Models
From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.
Voices of Reform: Courtney A.
Courtney lost custody of her two sons because of her substance use disorder. But instead of sitting in a jail cell, she received treatment and...
Wellness & Recovery Resources | SAMHS
A list of social clubs, club houses, peer support centers, and self-help groups throughout the state of Maine, provided by the Maine Office of Substance...
Youth MOVE Maine (YMM)
Youth MOVE Maine is a statewide, regionally based youth and young adult-driven organization dedicated to ensuring that all young people have a say in the...
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