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North Carolina Medical Journal
January/February 2009 Volume 70, Number 1
The Face of Addiction and the Pathways to Recovery

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

Perceptions vs. Reality:
Measuring of Pleural Fluid pH in North Carolina

Mark R. Bowling, MD
Arjun Chatterjee, MD, MS
John Conforti, DO
Norman Adair, MD
Edward Haponik, MD
Robert Chin Jr, MD

Postpartum Glucose Tolerance Screening in Women with Gestational Diabetes in the State of North Carolina
Arthur M. Baker, MD
Seth C. Brody, MD, MPH
Kathryn Salisbury
Robin Schectman
Katherine E. Hartmann, MD, PhD

Health Reform in
North Carolina

Lessons from the Past
and Prospects for the Future

Thomas C. Ricketts III, PhD, MPH

Policy Forum:
Substance Abuse in
North Carolina

Introduction
Thomas C. Ricketts III, PhD, MPH
Christine Nielsen, MPH

Issue Brief:
Substance Abuse in North Carolina

Pam C. Silberman, JD, DrPH
Representative Verla Insko
Senator Martin L. Nesbitt Jr, JD
Dewayne Book, MD
Kimberly Alexander-Bratcher, MPH
Berkeley Yorkery, MPP
Jennifer Hastings, MS, MPH
Daniel Shive, MSPH
Jesse Lichstein, MSPH
Mark Holmes, PhD

Commentaries

Drug Addiction:
A Chronically Relapsing Brain Disease

David P. Friedman, PhD

Substance Abuse Screening and Brief Intervention in Primary Care
Sara McEwen, MD, MPH

Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care, the Culture of Recovery, and Recovery Support Services
Donna M. Cotter, MBA

Making the Public Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse System More Accessible:
An Invitation to Recovery

Flo Stein, MPH

The Emerging Role of Prevention and Community Coalitions:
Working for the Greater Good

Phillip W. Graham, DrPH, MPH
Phillip A. Mooring, MS, CSAPC, LCAS


Substance Use Treatment Needs Among Recent Veterans
A. Meade Eggleston, PhD
Kristy Straits-Troster, PhD
Harold Kudler, MD

Physician Health vs. Impairment:
The North Carolina Physicians Health Program

Warren Pendergast, MD
Jim Scarborough, MDiv

Substance Abuse Treatment Continuum in the North Carolina Department of Correction
Virgina Price

Drug Treatment Courts
Kirstin Frescoln

Substance Abuse Services and Issues in Community Offender Supervision
Robert Lee Guy
Timothy Moose
Catherine Smith


The Physician's Role in Treating Addiction as a Diagnosable and Treatable Illness
Dewayne Book, MD

Adequacy of the Substance Abuse Workforce
Anna Misenheimer

Oxford Houses and My Road to Recovery
Kathleen Gibson

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Tarheel Footprints in Health Care

Philanthropy Profile

Running the Numbers

Spotlight on the Safety Net

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