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PTSD Awareness Day: The Need for Collaborative Care

Today's national observance aims to raise awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder and the need to provide the 21 million Americans who have it with access to proper treatment. Could collaborative care models, which integrate care from medical, behavioral health, and social service providers, be a potential solution?

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Three Possible Measures for Quality Medical Care May Help Cut Deaths from Opioid Addiction by One-Third

Following three possible recommendations for medical care for people with an opioid addiction may cut deaths among such patients by as much as one-third. Deaths were much lower among patients who were not prescribed opioids or common types of anxiety medications, those who received psychosocial counseling, and those who had quarterly visits with a physician.
Afghanistan

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Trump's Options for Afghanistan: Losing or Not Losing

The Trump administration faces the choice of losing quickly by withdrawing from Afghanistan; losing slowly by staying at the current, inadequate levels of commitment; or not losing by increasing that commitment enough to maintain a stalemate on the battlefield.
Health Care Facilities

Journal Article

Safety-Net Providers Can Adopt Medical Home Models and Improve Primary Care; Cost Reductions Harder

Most of the federally qualified health centers that participated in a program to help them adopt a “medical home” model of advanced primary care were successful in doing so. These changes improved access to primary care, but did not decrease the use of specialty care, acute care services or Medicare expenditures.
Security Cooperation

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The U.S.-France Dustup Over Counterterrorism in the Sahel

It's time for Paris and Washington to get together with the G5 nations of the Sahel and draft a strategy for achieving shared objectives. The French cannot do it alone or even with the support of the G5 nations. The U.S. would be penny wise but pound foolish to stay aloof or even just uphold the status quo.
Principals

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'Principal Pipelines' Can Be an Affordable Way to Improve Schools

Improving school leadership by better selecting, training, and evaluating principals can be an affordable way to reduce turnover and improve schools.
Refugees

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How Innovation Can Assist the Refugee 'Pathway'

New ways to collaborate and coordinate humanitarian actions are needed so that refugees, host communities, and other stakeholders are empowered to create and spread innovative solutions. These efforts should consider the entire refugee pathway, not only emergency and arrival assistance.
The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)

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Is ISIS Leader Baghdadi Still Alive?

The Russian military announced that it might have killed the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an airstrike in Raqqa. Would his death weaken the group or will ISIS continue to adapt, evolve, and expand like al Qaeda did?
International Diplomacy

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An Insider's Look at 50 Years of American Diplomacy

RAND's James Dobbins spent five decades on the frontlines of U.S. diplomacy. Now he takes readers behind the scenes of the Vietnam peace talks, the Cold War, German reunification, the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, and more.
The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)

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The Islamic State's Disposable Army

To leaders of the Islamic State group, murder of its own and collective suicide are keys to its defense strategy. The group targets malcontents and the most suggestible, knowing they are desperate to belong to something and willing to die for it.

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Principal turnover is common and it's particularly common in high-needs schools ... that are serving large proportions of kids living in poverty, for example, or in challenging urban districts... Having excessive principal turnover is disruptive and potentially harmful for teachers and for kids.
Laura S. Hamilton

Associate Director, RAND Education
Source: KUHF-FM
In the Gulf, all politics is personal. In their view, this is not how you treat close partners and pursue shared interests... This will inevitably add to Riyadh's feeling that Senator Corker's hold is a personal affront and a comment on the broader U.S.-Saudi relationship.
Becca Wasser

Policy Analyst
Source: Defense News
At a time when opiate overdoses exceed even traffic accidents as the number one cause of injury death in the nation, these changes [to U.S. health care] make no sense in public health terms — and will place many more Americans at risk of death.
Martin Y. Iguchi

Senior Behavioral Scientist
Source: The Orange County Register
The Trump admin. faces the choice of losing quickly by withdrawing from Afghanistan; losing slowly by staying at the current, clearly inadequate levels of commitment; or not losing by increasing that commitment enough to maintain a stalemate on the battlefield.
James Dobbins

Senior Fellow
Source: The Cipher Brief
Primary care medical practices are rapidly adopting the patient-centered medical home model of care and one result may be that under-served patients use more services once it becomes easier to access care.
Justin W. Timbie

Senior Health Policy Researcher
Source: RAND News Release

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PTSD Awareness Day: The Need for Collaborative Care

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Three Possible Measures for Quality Medical Care May Help Cut Deaths from Opioid Addiction by One-Third

Trump's Options for Afghanistan: Losing or Not Losing

Safety-Net Providers Can Adopt Medical Home Models and Improve Primary Care; Cost Reductions Harder

The U.S.-France Dustup Over Counterterrorism in the Sahel

'Principal Pipelines' Can Be an Affordable Way to Improve Schools

How Innovation Can Assist the Refugee 'Pathway'

Is ISIS Leader Baghdadi Still Alive?

An Insider's Look at 50 Years of American Diplomacy

The Islamic State's Disposable Army

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States vs. the Federal Government: Marijuana Legalization in the United States

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