Volume: 13
Issue:
40
24 July 2017
Marijuana* In The News Police Revive Same Man from Overdose 20 Times Mixing Caffine and Pot Brings New Risks Vaping Liquid Fentanyl Can Kindness Overcome Bullying? Oregon Bill to Decriminalize some Substances
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This publication was supported in whole or in part by the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Agency (SAPTA) through State General Funds and/or the SAPT Block Grant for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. DHHS, SAMHSA, or the State of Nevada.
Although the sale and use of Marijuana for recreational and medicinal purposes is not sanctioned by federal law and is still considered a Schedule I Controlled Substance, at the state level marijuana has been legalized by several states. Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Washington D.C. allow the use and sale of marijuana for either medicinal or recreational use or for both. Lacey Ojers *This information is a clarification to last week’s NPRC Update article about Marijuana.
Substance Use and the Workplace According to an article from NIDA, “some schools, hospitals, and places of employment require drug testing.” There are several different circumstances in which a person can be tested for drugs: preemployment, random, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, returnto-duty, and followup testing. There are several methods of drug testing, urine, hair, saliva or sweat. Nida lists some issues relating to drug testing and workplace issues when there are employees that use substances. According to the article, the individual employees that uses substances may be less productive, may be frequently absent, change jobs frequently, and are more likely to be involved in an accident and need to file for worker’s compensation. SAMHSA provides information for DrugFree Workplace Programs. The Division of Workplace Programs
was designed to “help all workplaces become drug-free.” They have created the Drug-Free Workplace Toolkit, which provides employers with the information needed to create and maintain a workplace that is drugfree. The toolkit provides steps and processes, and resources including employee education, supervisor training, and publications. The legalization of recreational and medicinal marijuana on the state level may cause problems with this idea of a drug-free workplace. NIDA Drug Testing Drug-Free Workplace Programs DFW Toolkit DFW Drug Testing DFW Guidelines and Resources
Below are the resources
the Nevada Prevention Resource Center has currently available regarding Drug-Free Workplaces and drug testing. NPRC #1150: Making Your Workplace Drug-Free: A Kit for Employers NPRC #1242: 14 Short Employers Cost Savings Briefs NPRC #330: Substance abuse services for multiemployer fund participants NPRC #163: CSAP Technical Report 12: Urine Specimen Collection Handbook for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs NPRC #1810: TAP 32: Clinical Drug Testing in Primary Care NPRC #122: Quick Guide for Clinicians Based on TIP 43: Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Opioid Treatment Programs
Lacey Ojers
Events and Opportunities NVHIDTA Trainings Heroin On Steroids “Fentanyl, W-18/carfentanil, and U-47700 If your agency has not encountered these substances yet, you will!” This course will inform participants on what these substances are, look like, where the substances have come from and how to guard yourself from possibly deadly contact. Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 Reno, NV Click here to register Grant Deadlines Check out our Grant Deadlines page periodically as grants become available throughout the year.
Parenting an Adolescent with 2017 Annual Conference: Addiction: How to Help Families Elevate Your Practice Cope and Heal This three-day conference This webinar, presented by the presented by NAADAC, the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Association for Addiction will provide information on how to Professionals, will provide help parents to better understand attending with an opportunity to their child’s addiction, how they earn 34.75 CEs. It will feature can be a part of their child’s plenary sessions, breakout recovery, and what resources are workshops, and addiction-specific available to them. the offered tracks. Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:00 am Click here to register
September 23-26, 2017 Denver, CO. Click here for additional info and to register
Application deadlines vary by grant.
CASAT SAPTA-sponsored Training Events
Clinical Supervision Refresher Reno Roberta Miranda, MS, LADC Wednesday, August 9, 2017 UNR Redfield Campus, Reno Click here to register
1-Day Intensive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trudy Gilbert-Eliot, PhD, LMFT, LADC Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Nevada CoOp Extension, Las Vegas Click here to register
Treating Problems with Pornography Mary Minten, MFT, DAACS, LCADC Monday, September 11, 2017 Nevada CoOp Extension, Las Vegas Click here to register
Clinical Supervision for LADCs 2-day Roberta Miranda, M.S, LADC Thursday, August 10, 2017 UNR Redfield Campus, Reno Click here to register
Brief, Solution Oriented Family Therapy 2-day Saul Singer, MFT, LCADC Monday, August 21, 2017 UNR Redfield Campus, Reno Click here to register
The CASAT SAPTA-sponsored training events website has additional online training opportunities. These online training videos allow you to gain CEHs by registering for and watching videos.
1-Day Intensive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trudy Gilbert-Eliot, PhD, LMFT, LADC Tuesday, August 15, 2017 UNR Redfield Campus, Reno Click here to register
Clinical Supervision Refresher LV Roberta Miranda, MS, LADC Thursday, August 24, 2017 Nevada State College, Henderson Click here to register
For an ongoing list of CASAT SAPTAsponsored Training Events click here.
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