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Medical Marijuana Public Comments Posted

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:54-07:00February 25th, 2011|General|

We received more than 1,500 comments on our second draft of the medical marijuana rules- bring the total number of comments to more than 3,000. We’ve posted all the comments on our hub website http://www.azdhs.gov/prop203/ (with personal information and foul language removed). We’ll be examining the suggestions over the coming weeks and expect to publish [...]

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ADHS’ Community Garden

By azdhs-admin|2011-02-25T09:22:10-07:00February 25th, 2011|General, Prevention|

It’s always best to lead by example. We’ve been encouraging community gardens for years and now we have one! After much hoping, dreaming and planning the community garden is finally a reality. In October, Jonathan Manning from Elgin Nursery came out to help us break ground. We added compost and cottonseed meal to a long [...]

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Food Cottage Industry Bill

By azdhs-admin|2011-02-24T19:47:00-07:00February 24th, 2011|General|

I had the opportunity to talk about the benefits of HB 2103 last week. It’s a real simple bill with the potential to have a big impact. It would basically allow folks to prepare (not potentially hazardous) food in their own home for commercial purposes as long as they package and label it with the [...]

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AHCCCS Coverage Changes?

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:54-07:00February 24th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

A few weeks ago I wrote about the portion of the proposed FY 2012 budget that would suspend for 2 years AHCCCS (Medicaid) eligibility for adults without children (called childless adults). As I mentioned in the earlier post, that kind of change would need to be approved by then federal government. Last week, the Secretary [...]

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Medical Marijuana Public Comment session

By azdhs-admin|2011-02-16T09:08:23-07:00February 16th, 2011|General|

We had the second of four public hearings on the draft rules in Tempe on Tuesday afternoon. We got a lot of good input from folks and there were some good suggestions to improve the draft rule. The most valuable comments came from people that offered concrete ideas for ways we can improve the rule's [...]

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Public Health Outcome Measures

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:57-07:00February 14th, 2011|General|

Last week I wrote about our Behavioral Health Outcomes Dashboard <https://directorsblog.health.azdhs.gov/?p=1117> - which highlights our efforts to shift our performance measures toward actual outcomes. In other words, we want to measure whether the services we provide actually help folks achieve their goals rather than whether someone’s paperwork is right. The same is true for public [...]

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Medical Marijuana Public Comment Meetings Next Week

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:57-07:00February 11th, 2011|General|

We’ll be holding four public comment meetings for the Medical Marijuana Rules next week. Public comment meetings are the part of the Rulemaking process whereby “an agency shall afford persons the opportunity to submit in writing statements, arguments, data and views on the proposed rule, with or without the opportunity to present them orally”. We [...]

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Marijuana Use & Earlier Onset of Psychosis?

By azdhs-admin|2011-02-08T10:48:22-07:00February 8th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

A number of published studies have found that using marijuana (and other psychoactive substances) is associated with an earlier onset of psychotic illness (notice I said “is associated with” rather than “causes”). National mental health surveys have repeatedly found more substance use, especially cannabis use, among people with a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. A [...]

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Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Comment on Arizona’s Draft Medical Marijuana Rules

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:58-07:00February 1st, 2011|General|

Three cheers for our interdisciplinary team that’s been working hard on the latest round of Administrative Code to implement the new medical marijuana law that will take effect April 14. We changed lots of provisions since the latest draft that we released on January 31. Here are just a few highlights: The new draft rules [...]

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2011 Homeless Street Count

By azdhs-admin|2011-01-30T07:22:20-07:00January 30th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

Twenty-two employees from ADHS and members of their families teamed up last week and joined the national effort to rid the nation and our state of homelessness. The beginning step is to produce clear evidence of the need by providing the government of (as closely as we can) the actual number of people who are [...]

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