RVUs- Whose Value Is It, Anyway? Payments for medical illnesses by insurers vary dramatically between mental health and other conditions. The difference in pay schedules cannot be accounted for by differences in stress, time, risk, or years of training required by the specialty. Rather, the payment discrepancies are due to the low value placed on mental health services by society.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, rvu, relative value, specialist, psychiatrist, psychiatry, insurance, insurer, reimbursement, claim, payment, charges, addiction, alcoholism, medicare, mental health parity, insurance panel, preferre The US Tax Code: An Open Letter to Madam Chairperson Pelosi The United States tax code tries to accomplish two things at once: raising revenue, and redistributing wealth. I suggest that we simplify things by replacing it with two systems, each designed to do only one thing. One agency could raise revenue, and the other could make everything fair. I wrote this letter to offer the suggestion to the current House Speaker.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, Taxes, tax code, irs, revenue, earned income tax credit, redistribution, fair, capitalism, politics, tax cuts, tax cuts for the rich, tax rates, President Bush, congress, senate, tax bill, budget, poor, rich, class warfare, vote, democrat, republican Stepping lightly over boxes of medical experience Is all learning beneficial? Can the mind make positive use of most of our life experiences? A corollary to 'once learned, some things cannot be unlearned' is that regarding personality, 'we are what we eat'. Our experiences remain within us, and color everything that we see and do going forwardKeywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, Experience, memory, bias, personality, perspective, learning, trauma, viewpoint, forgetting, object relation, psychodynamic, psychiatry, psychology Induced remission-- a new opiate addiction paradigm Traditional treatment of opiate addiction helps only a small number of addicts, and only after severe negative consequences. Even after successful treatment, opiate addiction is characterized by multiple relapses. Suboxone treatment is a dramatic improvement over traditional methods, and allows a new treatment paradigm: Successful treatment by inducing reliable remission of active addiction, usingKeywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, addiction, suboxone, buprenorphine, subutex, opiates, narcotic, methadone, recovery, naltrexone, oxycontin, oxycodone, vicodin, hydrocodone, rehab, treatment, heroin, withdrawal Treating opiate addiction with Suboxone, Part Two Traditional treatment of opiate addiction helps only a small number of addicts, and only after severe negative consequences. Even after successful treatment, opiate addiction is characterized by multiple relapses. Suboxone treatment is a dramatic improvement over traditional methods, and allows a new treatment paradigm: Successful treatment by inducing reliable remission of active addiction, usingKeywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, addiction, suboxone, buprenorphine, subutex, opiates, narcotic, methadone, recovery, naltrexone, oxycontin, oxycodone, vicodin, hydrocodone, rehab, treatment, heroin, withdrawal Suboxone: the end of traditional recovery? Suboxone, the new treatment for opiate dependence, has taken the addiction world by storm over the past two years. Part one takes a look at the unique clinical features of this medication that are based on the actions of the drug at the receptor level.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, suboxone, buprenorphine, subutex, opiate addiction, opiate dependence, steps, AA, NA, recovery, addiction treatment, cadcIII, methadone, addiction remission Can Suboxone and Traditional Recovery Get Along? Part Two. Suboxone, the new treatment for opiate dependence, has taken the addiction world by storm over the past two years. But those who treat addiction by sobriety and the 12 steps are leery about treatment that bypasses rigorous step work. Part two examines the effects of suboxone on character defects.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, suboxone, buprenorphine, subutex, opiate addiction, opiate dependence, steps, AA, NA, recovery, addiction treatment, cadcIII, methadone, addiction remission Does Suboxone Interfere With Recovery? Part Two Suboxone, the new treatment for opiate dependence, has taken the addiction world by storm, but treatment professionals who teach sobriety and the 12 steps see problems with addicts taking another opiate. Addiction professionals must find a way to integrate the treatments, or at least find a way for the treatments to coincide. Part three identifies critical issues with that goal in mind.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, suboxone, buprenorphine, subutex, opiate addiction, opiate dependence, steps, AA, NA, recovery, addiction treatment, cadcIII, methadone, addiction remission Treatment Options for Pain Pill Addiction Pain pill addiction is a common problem, and can progress to have fatal consequences. There are now treatment options that have amazing success that are accessible to most people. It is important that each patients learns all of the options and finds the treatment that fits him or her the best.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, pain pill addiction, opiate dependence, oxycontin addiction, oxycodone addiction, methadone addiction, addiction treatment, addiction rehab, addiction treatment centers, suboxone, subutex, recovery, NA, narcotics anonymous Is Counseling Good for Addiction? There is a general assumption that 'counseling' is always a good thing. When one considers that counseling often consists of advice from a stranger, perhaps it is just as well that people rarely act on such recommendations. This article examines types of counseling, and discusses the usefulness of counseling specifically as part of the treatment of addiction. The conclusions may surprise you.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, addiction treatment, opiate addiction, treatment options, psychotherapy, counseling, rehab, detox, drug treatment, drug addiction, suboxone Psychiatry Part II Oral Board Preparation: Performance and More Board Certification in Psychiatry requires that a physician complete psychiatric residency and then pass two examinations, one written and the other an oral examination including the evaluation of a patient under scrutiny by examiners. Success requires both knowledge and performance. The writer describes his own process for acheiving Board Certification on his first attempt.Keywords:
Jeffrey T Junig, psychiatry board preparation, psychiatry oral boards, psychiatry review, psychiatry, beattheboards, psychiatry preparation, psychiatry review, psychiatry boards, psychiatry preparation
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