National Latino Addiction Treatment Community Network

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Welcome to the National Latino Addiction Treatment Community Network. This website will emphasize science-based information related to the health of Hispanic communities by particularly addressing drug use problems and consequences, drug treatment and health care availability, co-occurring condition protocols, patient assessment instruments, and human resources such as specialists and consultants knowledgeable of the health of Hispanic/Latino communities.

Our goal is to provide accessible, meaningful data on the complex drug and health related issues of our Hispanic/Latino communities. By functioning as a centralized information hub, The National Latino Addiction Treatment Community Network will disseminate science-based data that can help educators across all levels of the drug use workforce community provide effective services.

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	Impact of Health Disparities Collaboratives on Racial/Ethnic and Insurance Disparities in US Community Health Centers On 2010 the American Medical Association published "Impact of Health Disparities Collaboratives on Racial/Ethnic and Insurance Disparities in US Community Health Centers". The following study: "examined whether HDCs reduced disparities in quality by race/ethnicity or insurance status in CHCs nationally. We performed a controlled preintervention/postintervention study of 44 CHCs participating in HDCs for asthma, diabetes mellitus, or hypertension and 20 “external” control CHCs that had not participated. Each intervention center also served as an “internal” control for another condition. For each condition, we created an overall quality score, defined disparities in care as the differences in care between racial/ethnic groups and insurance groups, and examined changes in disparity through a series of hierarchical models using a 3-way interaction term among period, patient characteristics of interest, and treatment group." For more informoation visit:

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Current Events

Activities during the month of July

Current events during the month of July 2010:

7/10/2010: 2010 National Council of La Raza Annual Congerence

News

NIH led scientists find antibodies that prevent most HIV strains from infecting human cells

Discovery to Advance HIV Vaccine Design, Antibody Therapy for Other Diseases

Scientists have discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of known global HIV...

The TEDS Report: Puerto Rican Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment

In 2007, heroin was the most common primary substance...

Links

• National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse

• Latino Behavioral Health Institute

• Adm. de Salud Mental y Abuso de Sustancias

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Featured Publications

• Responses to Discrimination and Psychiatric Disorders Among Black, Hispanic, Female, and ...

• Antidepressant treatment does not improve buprenorphine retention among opioid-dependent persons.

• Dating Violence and Substance Use Among Ethnically Diverse Adolescents.

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