Health Related Resources

NASW contributes to the Partners for Understanding Pain Tool Kit for Health Care Professionals. Partners for Understanding Pain is a consortium of organizations that touch the lives of people with chronic, acute, and cancer pain. The partnership, spearheaded by the American Chronic Pain Association, strives to create greater understanding among health care professionals, individuals and families who are struggling with pain management, the business community, legislators, and the general public that pain is a serious public health issue.

The guideline describes the critical decision points in the Management of Opioid Therapy (OT) for Chronic Pain and provides clear and comprehensive evidence based recommendations incorporating current information and practices for practitioners throughout the DoD and VA Health Care systems.

On Tuesday, November 13th from 10AM to 12PM ET, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a webconference featuring integrated health care social work delivery models.

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the United States. This document explores, in depth, how telehealth may be used to improve access to evidence-based tobacco cessation services.

This document outlines indicators that are specifically important to providing tobacco cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy via telehealth, including state laws and state Medicaid regulations that impact telehealth.

Health Professions Week, held November 5-9, is a free week-long event of interactive events for high school and college students interested in the health professionals. Scholarships and other prizes for Health Professions Week registrants will be available.