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A Guideline for Credentialing and Privileging of Clinical Professionals for Care of Substance-Related Disorders

February 1, 2000
Abstinence

September 1, 1974
Access to Appropriate Detoxification Services for Persons Incarcerated in Prisons and Jails

July 1, 2002
Access to Sterile Syringes and Needles (formerly "Needle Exchange")

October 1, 1994; rev. December 1, 2000
Alcoholism as a Primary Disease

October 1, 1983; rev. October 1, 1996
Availability of Prescribed Medications

April 1, 2007
Buprenorphine for Opiate Dependence and Withdrawal

April 1, 1988; rev. May 1, 2006
Chemically Dependent Women and Pregnancy

September 1989
Children and Addiction

February 1, 1987
Clean Indoor Air Policy

October 1, 2008
Clinical Applications of the Nicotine Patch

October 1, 1992
Confidentiality in Healthcare and Other Licensed Professionals with Potentially Impairing Illness

April 21, 2011
Confidentiality in Physician Illness

April 1, 1999
Confidentiality of Patient Records and Protections Against Discrimination

July 1, 2010
Co-occurring Addictive and Psychiatric Disorders

December 1, 2000
Coordination between Treatment Providers, Professionals Health Programs, and Regulatory Agencies

April 12, 2011
Core Benefit for Primary Care and Specialty Treatment and Prevention of Alcohol, Nicotine and Other Drug Abuse and Dependence

April 1993
Credentialing in Healthcare and Other Licensed Professionals with Addictive Illness

April 12, 2011
Definitions Related to the Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Pain: Consensus Statement

April 1, 1997; rev. February 1, 2001
Discrimination and the Addicted Professional

April 12, 2011

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