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Request for Funding:
Indiana Annual Recovery Month Symposium

The request for funding for the Indiana Annual Recovery Month Symposium is available. The Indiana Annual Recovery Month Symposium is a two day statewide conference hosted by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction in partnership with a vendor with the focus to promote recovery and to educate providers and community partners about evidence-based and best practices for providing services to individuals with serious mental illness and Co-occurring disorders and/or those who are justice involved.

The potential respondents for the RFF are for-profit or non-profit organizations with a minimum of three years working in the state of Indiana with the documented and expertise of opioid use disorder, Recovery Residences, stigma, recovery communities, and evidence based treatment of opioid use disorder.

Learn more here.

News from the Field:
Alcohol and Marijuana Use and Motivations Among Young Adults During the Pandemic

Stay-at-home and physical distancing orders during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to increased stress, anxiety, depression, and boredom, and reports suggest that some people may be consuming more alcohol as a coping mechanism. A recent study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism now reveals changes in patterns of alcohol and marijuana use during the pandemic, as well as changes in motives for use among young adults.

The study assessed changes in four categories of motivations for alcohol use: social reasons (e.g., drinking as a social lubricant), conformity (e.g., drinking to fit in), enhancement (e.g., drinking to enhance positive emotions), and coping (e.g., drinking to avoid negative emotions).

Read more here.

Drug Update: Methamphetamine Use in the Great Lakes Region

Methamphetamine use is a large and growing problem across much of the United States. In fact, data reveals that methamphetamine (and stimulants in general) may be the next major epidemic facing the country. In some regions, methamphetamine has been endemic since previous waves of use. But the newest wave is different in important ways. A brief published by the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center explores methamphetamine use in the Great Lakes (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) region, highlighting use and overdose patterns, risk and protective factors, and the current state of prevention research.

Access the brief here.

Resource: National Rural Health Association

The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit membership organization with more than 21,000 members. The association’s mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues through advocacy, communications, education and research. NRHA membership consists of a diverse collection of individuals and organizations, all of whom share the common bond of an interest in rural health.

Check out their events calendar for the National Rural Health Conference, a Rural Policy Institute and the Health Equity Conference. The advocacy section has tools, a legislative tracker and policy papers as a resource for rural communities.

Access the site here.