Concerns about access to behavioral health care for military service members and their dependents living in geographically remote locations prompted research into how many in this population are remote and the effects of this distance on their use of behavioral health care. The authors conducted geospatial and longitudinal analyses to answer these questions and reviewed current policies and programs to determine barriers and possible solutions.

Access to Behavioral Health Care for Geographically Remote Service Members and Dependents in the U.S.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pincus, Harold Alan

Brown, Ryan Andrew

Miyashiro, Lisa

Marshall, Grant N.

Breslau, Joshua

Farris, Coreen

Osilla, Karen Chan

Ruder, Teague

Voorhies, Phoenix

Barnes-Proby, Dionne

Pfrommer, Katherine

Rana, Yashodhara

Adamson, David M.

Mental Health

RAND Corporation

This report summarizes insights about prescription drug misuse (PDM) among active-duty personnel. It also presents the framework of an analytic tool that, once informed by data available to the military but not available to the authors, can help the military predict future trends in PDM based on current demographics of active-duty service members and rates of injury and prescribing of prescription drugs.

Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Prescription Drug Misuse Among Active-Duty Service Members

DeVries, David

Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo

Walters, Jennifer

Blanchard, Janice C.

Stewart, Warren

Leuschner, Kristin J.

Hunter, Sarah B.

Ober, Allison J.

Vardavas, Raffaele

Drabo, Emmanuel F.

Addiction & Recovery

This manual presents RE-thinking Avenues for Change (REACH), a 12-session cognitive behavioral therapy developed for clients with a first-time driving under the influence (DUI) offense. Each session is interactive and encourages clients to share ideas and information; examine the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that put them at risk for drinking and driving; learn or enhance existing coping skills; and provide group members with peer support.

Teaching Skills to Reduce DUI Recidivism: An Evidence-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program

Miranda, Jeanne

Behavioral health disparities, in which socially disadvantaged groups-such as racial/ethnic minorities, women, and sexual-orientation ' minorities-experience greater risk tor certain mental health and substance use problems, are well documented in the general population. Less is known about whether similar behavioral health disparities exist among military service members. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) desires to understand whether the behavioral health disparities seen in the civilian population also exist in the military, as this knowledge is important to helping DoD target its efforts to address the needs of service members and improve force readiness. To investigate this issue, the authors examined (1) whether minority-group service members are more likely to experience mental health and substance use problems relative to their majority counterparts in the military and (2) whether minority-majority group differences in behavioral health in the military are similar to or different from those in the civilian population. The authors used data from the 2015 Health Related Behaviors Survey, the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the 2015 and 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and the 2015 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Behavioral health outcomes include mental health (e.g., depression, suicide behaviors, posttraumatic stress disorder) and substance use (e.g., problematic alcohol use, tobacco use) conditions. Book jacket.

Behavioral Health of Minority Active Duty Service Members

Jaycox, Lisa H.

Schell, Terry L.

Wong, Eunice C.

Meadows, Sarah O.

Chan, Wing Yi

Schuler, Megan S.

Roth, Elizabeth

Women's Health

America's Opioid Ecosystem: How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms

Gates, Susan M.

Caulkins, Jonathan P.

Kilmer, Beau

Davis, Lois M.

Smucker, Sierra

Vaiana, Mary E.

Dworsky, Michael

Stein, Bradley D.

Taylor, Jirka

Iguchi, Martin Y.

Pardo, Bryce

Sherry, Tisamarie B.

Business & Money

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