Will insurance plans be required to cover all mental and substance-use disorders?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

To begin with, the law includes substance-use disorders, as well as other mental illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

And mental health and substance-use interventions have become quite refined so we also know what works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Managing High Need, High Cost Medical Patients] Reference

By law, insurers are required to tell workers, upon request, what criteria they use to deny coverage for any mental illnesses or substance-use disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind, as Well as Body] Reference

These co-morbid and concurrent issues include learning and school-related problems, substance-use problems, developmental issues and risk-taking behaviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Mental Health is Everybody's Business] Reference

Starting in January, a new law will require that group health plans put mental-health care and treatment of substance-use disorders on par with physical illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind, as Well as Body] Reference

If a plan allows for out-of-network coverage for medical and surgical care, it will need to provide the same level of coverage for mental-health and substance-use services.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

Experts say that they expect companies to cover schizophrenia, substance-use disorders and other major illnesses, but that some may choose not to cover autism, attention-deficit disorder and some others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind, as Well as Body] Reference

I am also proud to have successfully worked on an amendment with my colleagues to ensure that screening for mental health and substance-use disorders are covered as a preventative service under this bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rep. Patrick Kennedy: In Reforming Our Health Care System, We'd Be Crazy to Ignore the Mind] Reference

But a company can offer less coverage for out-of-network treatment of mental-health or substance-use issues than for in-network treatment, as long as it is no more restrictive than coverage offered for physical illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

The financial-bailout package signed into law earlier this month included legislation requiring employers and health insurers to put their mental-health and substance-use coverage on par with their physical-health coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

In 1999, President Clinton required the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which purchases insurance for federal workers, to offer mental-health and substance-use coverage that is on par with other medical coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

And it says all mental-health and substance-use coverage offered by a plan -- such as co-payments, deductibles and the coverage of hospitalization stays -- must be on par with the other medical and surgical coverage it offers.    From Wordnik.com.  [How New Law Boosts Coverage of Mental Care] Reference

Words used to describe substance-use patients can alter attitudes, contribute to stigma.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

However, whether or not any of these patients also had prior substance-use problems was not examined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

It simply says if a mental health or substance-use condition is covered, coverage must be equal with medical coverage.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference

Educate and engage the medical community so it can detect and address substance-use disorders early and act appropriately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Mental illness and substance-use disorders are closely inter-related with HIV infection and concentrated especially among prison populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Whether these extremely low rates were in the overall patient population or solely in those patients without prior substance-use problems is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

• Treatment limitations can't be more restrictive for mental-health or substance-use benefits than they are for other medical or surgical benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

However, fewer than 2 out of 1,000 (0. 19\%) patients without a current or past substance-use disorder experienced problems with opioids prescribed for pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The patients were grouped according to evaluated intention: suicide attempts (moderate to high suicide intent), appeals (low suicide intent) and substance-use related poisonings.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

"An entire way of life has been destroyed and this is causing anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance-use disorders, thoughts of suicide and other problems.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News - The Post Chronicle] Reference

—and simply added together the estimated lifetime incidence of depression among women who had had an abortion (29.3%) and the lifetime incidence of substance-use disorders (24.6%).    From Wordnik.com.  [Colby Cosh] Reference

Clearly, while substance-use disorders are themselves recognized psychiatric conditions, their trajectories begin with seemingly voluntary action, often tinged with criminal-or at least deviant-overtones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

I am currently advocating for the inclusion of education and training on mental health and substance-use disorders for all health care providers, so they are better equipped to provide whole-body care to all Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

In addition to expanding HIV testing, linkage to care and treatment, substance-use treatment, and promoting condom and syringe access, this pill may be a new tool in this effort, particularly among high-risk individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Estimates of substance-use disorders among the general public range from 5\% to as high as 67\%, depending on the population examined; although, the exact percentages of those disorders involving solely opioids has been poorly defined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Objectives: "Millions of American today receive health care for mental or substance-use problems and illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Freedom to set prices key for UK drugs industry] Reference

Program Summary And Objectives: "Millions of American today receive health care for mental or substance-use problems and illnesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Freedom to set prices key for UK drugs industry] Reference

The authors say: "Evidence-based treatment for substance-use disorders improves the psychological and physiological disruptions that perpetuate the often unstable life of.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

(4.5 percent), childhood ADHD history (33.3 percent), adult ADD (18.2 percent), substance-use disorder (22.7 percent) and psychosis and restless legs syndrome (1.5 percent).    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Treatment of HIV infection, substance-use disorders, and comorbidities in HIV-infected drug users is improved by comprehensive and multidisciplinary management of these disorders. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

HIV and substance-use research. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference