The Challenge of Integration: Use of Medications as a First Line Treatment & Misuse in Behavioral Health

OPEN MINDS The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry Feature NAPPP believes that the public needs to hear from very experienced healthcare providers who have made the long journey through a broken and co-opted healthcare system that is being driven further into the hands of the Primary Care Medicine and the marketing system that uses physicians, primary care and specialists as vehicles for unproven and costly treatment regimens. The result has been a system that largely is unresponsive to reform and a healthcare system that, in fact, promotes illness, habituation to analgesics and addiction to other drugs . . .