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Urban Counseling Institute Guidance and Encouragement Through Counseling UCI provides a community based culturally diverse approach to comprehensive substance abuse services that promote the emotional and physical health of families and individuals, improving the quality of life, regardless of income or social status.

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Our Mission The mission of Urban Counseling Institute is to provide substance abuse counseling services to urban populations that would not normally have the opportunity to engage in alcohol/drug counseling. Urban Counseling Institute focus is to break down barriers and stereotypes in the urban communities concerning the need for counseling. UCI realize many people in the urban community can’t afford infividual or group substance abuse counseling services and it is our mission to seek resources that would enable people to have a wide range of alcohol/drug abuse treatment services available to them. Our PHILOSOPHY Urban Counseling Institute is an ADAA State Certified Comprehensive Substance Abuse Treatment Facility. The objective is to support clients in achieving abstinence and enhancing recovery within the community. Urban Counseling Institute further provides its services in close cooperation with a variety of detoxification and residential programs and community self-help groups. The client is expected to be involved in determining his/her own treatment goals. The Urban Counseling Institute program is available to all without regard to race, sex, religion or national origin.

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We provide comprehensive programs that include:

UCI believes that the individual with a history of substance abuse can change his/her attitudes and behaviors as a result of the right mix of psychosocial interventions and therapy.

• Comprehensive Assessments • Court Prepared Evaluations

• Case Management, including assistance to the client to develop treatment plan • Group and Individual Counseling • DWI/DUI Education • Relapse Prevention • Emergency Intake Service • Urine Screens • Aftercare Treatment • Driver Improvement Program (DIP) • Counseling for Problem Gamblers / State Certified • Referrals

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Addiction is not simply a weakness. People from all backgrounds, rich or poor, can develop an addiction. Addiction can happen at any age.

Addiction is a brain disease. • Drugs change how the brain works. • These brain changes can last for a long time. • They can cause problems like mood swings, memory loss, even trouble thinking and making decisions. • Addiction is a disease, just as diabetes and cancer are diseases. There is hope... and we’re here to help. We can help you manage your addiction... through medication based treatment and counseling.

What is addiction and why do scientists believe it is a treatable disease? According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, when a person can’t stop taking a drug or drinking alcohol even if he/she wants to, it’s called addiction. The urge is too strong to control, even if he/she know the drug is causing harm. When people start using drugs or drinking alcohol, they don’t plan to get addicted. They like how the drug/alcohol makes them feel. They believe they can control how much and how often they take the drug or drink. However, drugs/alcohol change the brain. People start to need the drug/alcohol just to feel normal. That is addiction, and it can quickly take over a person’s life. Drugs/alcohol can become more important than the need to eat or sleep. The urge to get and use the drug or to drink can fill every moment of a person’s life. The addiction may replace all the things the person used to enjoy. A person who is addicted might do almost anything—even lying, stealing, or hurting people—to keep taking the drug or drinking alcohol.

UCI provides a community based, culturally diverse approach to comprehensive substance abuse services that promote the emotional and physical health of families and individuals, improving the quality of life, regardless of income or social status.

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Over the course of two days in mid-August, more than 95 people in New Haven, Connecticut, overdosed.

Their drug, however, wasn’t heroin. It was synthetic cannabinoids, commonly sold as K2, Spice, or potpourri. The fallout from the incident was so widespread that experts have referred to it as a “mass casualty incident.” In nearby Baltimore, a new study by the University of Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) published this month articulates many of the problems with identifying and treating synthetic cannabinoid overdoses.

Researchers studied urine samples of patients with suspected synthetic cannabinoid overdose at two different hospitals, the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus in Baltimore and the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

They almost immediately hit a snag with their study.

If the patients had been using Spice, why wasn’t it showing up in their urine?

“When we got the results back, it was just kind of amazing because we expected to find a large percentage testing positive for the synthetic cannabinoids metabolites we were testing for, and what we found was that in the first go around only I think one specimen testing positive for it,” said principal investigator Eric Wish, PhD, a principal study investigator and director of CESAR at the University of Maryland, College Park, College of Behavioral & Social Sciences.

Despite testing the urine for 169 different drugs, including 26 metabolites of synthetic cannabinoids, it simply wasn’t there. The issue, say experts, highlights an urgent need for improved testing for so-called new psychoactive substances, including Spice and synthetic cathinones, also known as bath salts. These new drugs don’t show up on standard drug tests, making it difficult to form a clear diagnosis. Designer drugs continually manage to dodge legislation because whenever a certain variety is outlawed based on its chemical structure, a new similar chemical is manufactured and sold legally.>>>

“People want to know what they’ve been exposed to.”

“While the press and the media talk about Spice and K2 like it’s a single type of phenomenon, the truth can’t be further from that,” Wish told Healthline. “Basically what you have is some chemist in another country, oftentimes the DEA says it’s China, who waits and they see what has been put on the prohibited list by the government. And then they go ahead and they tweak the molecule a little so it’s no longer on the prohibited list and then they make it available.” New diagnostic measures One year later, researchers implemented an updated drug-test panel that increased the number of synthetic cannabinoids from 26 to 46. Even with this improved panel, only about one-quarter of the samples tested positive. The study also highlights several other findings that could potentially help improve immediate care for individuals overdosing on newer drugs at emergency departments as well as future public health initiatives. For instance, where a patient lives can foretell what drugs may be in their bloodstream. Researchers saw that in patients at Prince George’s County. Nearly half of them also tested positive for the hallucinogen PCP. Those at the Midtown Campus hospital were far more likely to have cocaine and fentanyl in their bloodstream. “The study provides public health officials, provides patients themselves, an understanding of the risks that they are exposed to,” said Dr. Zachary D.W. Dezman, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

The fentanyl factor Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, is increasingly showing up across the United States with deadly results. In this study, researchers found that among all substances, fentanyl was the most likely to be found in combination with multiple other drugs. In some specimens, it was detected with as many as 12 others — indicating that users either aren’t aware what is in their drugs or that users of fentanyl are regularly using many different drugs simultaneously. “I’ve had a number of patients who once they were told they were fentanyl positive… started to seek treatment,” he added. Currently, fentanyl doesn’t show up on common “dip tests” used in hospitals, but Dezman hopes that will soon change. Synthetic cannabinoids, fentanyl, and synthetic cathinones represent a new challenge for members in the healthcare community to identify and treat, but by understanding which drugs are being used in which communities, better education and treatment options can be developed. “We can track people down to a particular area code, and that allows us to do things like create, potentially, a mobile van for education efforts to educate the neighborhood on the dangers they are being exposed to, signs to look out for an opioid overdose, distribute naloxone, and potentially also start a mobile opioid maintenance therapy van [to provide] methadone or Suboxone,” said Dezman. People “want to know what they’ve been exposed to,” said Dezman.

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By Morgan Eichensehr – Reporter, Baltimore Business Journal Jul 12, 2018, 7:00am CVS Health has installed safe medication disposal units in 19 of its pharmacies across Maryland, in an effort to help prevent opioid abuse and misuse.

w “This is for those medications that are sitting in your home that are no longer needed,” Davis said. “So maybe a patient had a broken leg and needed opioids for the pain, but has some pills left over — those drugs can be easily diverted for abuse by anyone who has access, and we want to help prevent that.” In addition to the medication disposal effort, the CVS Health Foundation is helping to fund opioid-related efforts at the local level, by awarding up to $2 million in grants to community health centers dedicated to supporting opioid addiction recovery. In Baltimore, a $85,000 grant is going to Total Health Care. The funding will be used to develop and implement care models to increase participation in Total Health Care’s substance abuse treatment program. Davis said taking part in combating the opioid crisis is in line with CVS’s mission as a health care company. “Our pharmacists are uniquely positioned as part of the local health care systems to play an important role in educating and also intervening on this issue,” Davis said. “Our mission is about helping people on their path to better health, and one of the ways we can do that is through heightened safety around prominent public health issues.” Maryland is among states across the U.S. that have been ravaged by the deadly ongoing opioid epidemic. Tom Davis, vice president of professional services for CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), said CVS is seeking to support communities that have been affected by the crisis with its medication disposal kiosks. The units will allow patients to drop off unused or excess pills from old prescriptions, so they can be handed over to police and safely disposed of.

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