Student Poster Showcase Contest - Deadline to Submit is February 6, 2012!
If you are a student, we encourage you to submit a poster to the Student Poster Showcase Award Contest for the 2012 APHA Annual Meeting. Among other things, you will earn the chance to win $250 and a full year free membership to APHA! Find out more information and about eligibility criteria by reading our Promotional Piece.
The deadline is soon approaching, so please make plans to submit your abstract soon!
Congratulations to the 2011 winners:
Alcohol Winner – Philip H. Smith, M.S.
Women’s drinking outcomes predicted by divorce or separation from a problem drinking spouse: Findings from NESARC.
Tobacco Winner – Minal Patel, MPH
Ethnic enclaves, acculturation, mental health, and tobacco use among California Asian Indian immigrants.
Other Drugs Winner – Monica E. Mundy, MPH
Substance use on a major television network.
The 2011 APHA Annual Meeting Was a Success!
In case you missed it, check out all of the great sessions from the 2011 APHA Annual Meeting at our 2011 ATOD Program Guide and Brochure.
Additionally, you can download the full list of 2011 ATOD Scientific Sessions as well.
You can find prior year ATOD program guides here.
Thanks to all of our sponsors for making what we know will be a successful program at this year's APHA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. We couldn't have done it without you!
How will Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs be impacted by Health Reform (Affordable Care Act)?
By: Kathye Gorosh, CEO New Age Services; APHA ATOD Section Councilor; Coordinator of ATOD Health Reform Work Group
Note: Please visit our "Resources/Links" page to find out more information.
The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) assures that mental health and substance use services for newly covered individuals are provided at parity and consistent with the 2008 passage of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA). Between 20 and 30 percent of the estimated 32 million more Americans covered by the ACA in 2014 will have a mental or substance use disorder. The parity legislation and health care reform will push an integration of services that currently is non-existent. The tangled web of addiction encompasses both licit and illicit drugs and therefore treatment, including tobacco cessation, needs to be comprehensive and not fragmented which includes alcohol, tobacco and “other drugs”.
This expansion is a tremendous opportunity to close the addiction treatment gap and ensure access to critically needed Substance Use and Mental Health services. Key areas of focus are/will be: Essential benefits; cost impact and containment, care management/disease management/integration, and workforce/treatment capacity.
Our ATOD Section now has a Health Reform Work Group so we can share links, key reports, and presentations as they are available since it can be overwhelming to keep up with all the changes if it's not the sole focus of your work. A lot of the focus is now on the States – yet another tangled web.
On behalf of our Work Group – we would like to be a resource for our ATOD members and share select information as it becomes available. We will be posting information over time on our APHA ATOD Website at: www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/atod/Resources/.
The "Resources and Links" will house key documents and links for the Section.
We’d like to hear what your questions are on health reform and behavioral health as well as the type of answers you’d like to see. So, please check out (it’s easy to join if you’re not already on) our Facebook page to start a discussion, pose questions or provide some answers. The link is: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/APHA-ATOD-Section/101252503240336
Opportunity to Give Your Time, Talent and Treasures
There are several ways to contribute to the ATOD section. Attend a business meeting or events, help recruit new members, or add the ATOD Section as your second affiliation when you renew your membership. We also hope that you agree that the work of the ATOD is important and worth supporting. Whether you can contribute $26 or $260, no donation is too small and every contribution helps us reach our overall fundraising goal to support Section activities and events. In fact, we could almost reach our fundraising goal if every Section member gave a tax-deductible donation* of $26!
To donate to our section:
Please download and use the form attached here. Our Enrichment Account Number (#328092) is already posted on the document – all you have to do is write out a check or credit card number and send it in the mail to APHA.
All contributors will be acknowledged during the meeting, at our events, and on any distributed materials including our program, unless the donor prefers to remain anonymous.
Thank you in advance for helping the ATOD Section - it is greatly appreciated!
Amber Bullocok
Fundraising Chair and Governing Councilor
APHA, ATOD Section
atodamber@gmail.com
*Donations to APHA are tax deductible (Tax ID number 13-1628688) and should be made to the ATOD Enrichment Account (#328092).
Top 10 Reasons to Join the ATOD Section
The ATOD Section Leaders welcome you to join us to learn more about how to participate in developing atod policies and to plan our annual program.
Click here for: “Top 10 Reasons to Join the ATOD Section”
To join the ATOD Section go to: http://www.apha.org/about/membership/
And add ATOD as a your primary or secondary section membership when renewing APHA membership.
We look forward to your participation as an ATOD member!