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Prescription Painkiller Forum

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00July 17th, 2012|General, Prevention|

We’re committed to reducing substance abuse in Arizona and we’re consistently reminding the public to get rid of old medication to reduce the number of unintentional poisonings. With more Arizonans dying every year from misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers than car crashes- it's more important than ever to educate health care providers... so we’re hosting a forum to discuss this [...]

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New AZ Developmental Disabilities Planning Council Website

By Will Humble|2012-07-12T08:33:37-07:00July 12th, 2012|General|

The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council finished it's website makeover this week at www.azdes.gov/ADDPC. One of our goals for the last couple of years has been to become a more efficient hub of information for folks with disabilities, their families and providers. The site uses something called an Ektron operating platform which is designed for ease of use, meaning it's easy [...]

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Trauma System Improvements in Arizona

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00July 10th, 2012|General|

Imagine your son or daughter is riding their bicycle in rural Arizona when a car swerves and crashes into them, causing a severe head injury. They are clinging to life. Until several years ago, if this injury had happened anywhere other than Flagstaff, Tucson or Phoenix, your child’s chance of receiving specialized trauma care within [...]

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Medical Condition Petition Status

By azdhs-admin|2012-07-06T11:11:56-07:00July 6th, 2012|General|

The AZ Medical Marijuana Act requires us to periodically accept petitions to add new medical conditions to the list of conditions that qualify folks for an AZ Medical Marijuana Registration Card. In January, we accepted petitions from the public and had a public hearing in May. Folks submitted numerous articles as a part their petitions for PTSD 1; PTSD 2; Depression; Migraines; and Generalized [...]

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Telling the Public Health Story

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00July 5th, 2012|General|

One of the key elements of our Strategic Plan is to “Build Public Health Value.” One of the best ways to do that is to tell good stories that capture people’s attention and imagination- stories that highlight the value of public health. During our Division of Licensing’s employee recognition event last week, Larry Martens read [...]

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2012 Water Drive Success

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00June 29th, 2012|General|

Quite a show of teamwork from all our staff today as they moved more than 60 thousand bottles of water out of storage into a huge pile in the parking lot of 1740. But the work wasn't done – they loaded all that water into trucks, trailers and vans to be distributed throughout Maricopa County [...]

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Madan Jumps In Head-first

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 28th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Our own Madan Gopal from I.T. has been invited by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to participate in a national Roundtable discussion about the role and use of health IT to fill the needs of behavioral health providers, to integrate behavioral health record data into primary care, and on how ”Meaningful Use” could [...]

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Walking the Balance Beam

By Will Humble|2012-06-26T08:39:34-07:00June 26th, 2012|General|

One of the balancing acts that folks living with disabilities face is how to navigate employment opportunities and still keep the services that keep them healthy and able to work in the first place. There’s a great new statewide resource that can help folks with disabilities and their families make informed decisions. It’s a web [...]

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Bear Brains

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 25th, 2012|General|

Some of our Laboratory scientists (Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Alexandra Bhatti, Heather Bickley and Charles Martin) are busy right now testing the brains of the 2 bears that were destroyed over the weekend to see if they had rabies. You might have heard about the bear attacks, which happened in and around Payson recently. On Sunday, a [...]

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M2 Contracts On Deck

By Will Humble|2012-06-23T09:04:27-07:00June 23rd, 2012|General|

We have a couple of new projects in the works to ensure that the dispensary system reflects a medical rather than a recreational system. We’re working with Arizona's pharmacy/poison control systems to put together a contract to provide technical assistance and educational materials to the future dispensary medical directors. We’re also putting together a contract [...]

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