Students Collaborate to Solve Real-World
Medical and Health Care Challenges
High school students are preparing to tackle some of the biggest medical problems facing society. The Technology Student Association (TSA) asks students to use their engineering skills to confront challenges facing the medical and healthcare industries as it launches the annual TEAMS competition.

With the 2012 theme, "Engineering Healthier Lives," nearly 10,000 ninth - 12th grade TEAMS participants will gather for one-day competitions over a four-week period from February 13 through March 12 at 130 competition sites in 43 states and Washington DC, including 64 colleges and universities.

To prepare for the competition, each registered school and group receives preparatory materials including a coach guide, competition scenarios, supplemental hands-on activities, lesson plans and tips for group decision-making and problem-solving strategies. Working in a written competition format, teams of four to eight students face off during two ninety-minute parts:

• Part 1: Eighty multiple choice questions, requiring team members to apply math and science knowledge to novel situations.
• Part 2: Eight tasks to be answered in a short essay format, expanding students' ideas as they explain their ideas for engineering solutions.

Medicine is increasingly turning to engineers for solutions to some of its challenges. Drug design, medical device design, and clinical research are all areas where engineering skills are necessary to keep pace with the increasing knowledge base provided by primary research. In solving "real-world" medical challenges, students participating in the 2012 TEAMS Competition will be asked to consider:

• How drugs can be designed to be effective in treating disease, have minimal side effects, and improve patient quality of life?
• How prostheses and medical devices should be designed to be long lasting and provide full functionality to patients?
• How clinical trials can be designed and managed to obtain maximum information about the effects of the treatment in a fair and ethical way?

About TSA
TSA is a national organization devoted exclusively to the needs of students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Open to young people enrolled in or who have completed technology education courses, TSA's membership includes over 150,000 middle and high school students in 2,000 schools spanning 48 states. TSA partners with universities and other organizations to promote a variety of STEM competitions and opportunities for students and teachers. TSA is supported by educators, parents and business leaders who believe in the need or a technologically literate society. From engineers to business managers, our alumni credit TSA with a positive influence in their lives. (see a complete list at teams.tsaweb.org).

ABH CAREER NEWS - Week of January 23, 2012

Army Releases Gold Book Report on
Health and Readiness
The Army 2020 Generating Health and Discipline in the Force-Report 2012, often referred to as the Army Gold Book, was released last week; an update to the Army Red Book published in 2010. The report summarizes progress made in enhancing health, discipline and readiness of the force and represents the next phase in the Army’s campaign to counter stress associated with more than a decade of war.

The Gold Book addresses the challenges that service members and families currently face and provides an assessment of what the Army has learned with respect to physical and behavioral health conditions, disciplinary problems and the remaining gaps in Army policy. It is meant to serve as a resource for leaders, policy makers, commanders, and service providers, as they work together to address the challenges that lie ahead.
Read the full report.

ABH CAREER NEWS - Week of January 16, 2012

The Addiction Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Business Community is
Forecast to Show Steady Growth until 2018
The industry analysis Global Data Specialist, has released its new report, Addiction Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery - Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2018. The report is an essential source of information and analysis on the global Addiction Control Therapeutics market.

The report identifies the key trends shaping and driving the global Addiction Control Therapeutics market. The report also provides insights on the prevalent competitive landscape and the emerging players expected to significantly alter the market positioning of the current market leaders.

Most importantly, the report provides valuable insights on the pipeline products within the global Addiction Control Therapeutics sector. This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData's team of industry experts.

GlobalData estimates that the global addiction control therapeutics market (nicotine, alcohol and drug addiction) was valued at $3,657m in 2010, and is forecast to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.8% to reach $8,320m by 2018.

Chantix (varenicline), Vivitrol (naltrexone extended release injection suspension), nicotine replacement therapies (NRT's) and buprenorphine will continue to maintain significant presence in the future addiction control therapeutics market.

List of Tables and Figures

• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Introduction
• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Market Characterization
• Addiction Control Therapeutics Market - Competitive Assessment
• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Pipeline Assessment
• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Clinical Trials Mapping
• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Strategic Assessment
• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Future Players
• Addiction Control Therapeutics - Licensing and Partnership Deals

ABH CAREER NEWS - Week of January 09, 2012

2012 Military Healthcare Behavioral Health Summit
The mental and behavioral health of today’s service members is a top priority for the DoD. Both active duty and veterans are dealing with behavioral health issues such as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), anxiety, depression, substance abuse and more. The DoD is implementing effective methods and programs geared to improve their resilience, recovery and reintegration.

Treating service members and veterans with cognitive, psychological and psychosocial impairments is critical for promoting the overall health and well-being of the military. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines are increasingly returning from the combat zone with symptoms and problems, at times difficult to detect, related to war. Prevention and identification are key to advancing behavioral health treatment.

IDGA’s Military Healthcare Behavioral Health Summit provides a unique platform for military and non-military healthcare professionals to convene and fosters the joint development of strategies to standardize care for service members throughout the continuum from pre-deployment to reintegration and post combat.

Attendees will receive updates on how the DoD and VA are working to provide quality behavioral health care pre-deployment through reintegration; Access the latest research and treatment options for post-deployment mental health conditions; Receive insight and training on understanding the problems and mindset of troops with behavioral health issues. More information for to: www.militarybehavioralhealthcare.com

ABH CAREER NEWS - Week of January 02, 2012

ASAPNYS Leading the Way with New
Collaborative Member Benefits
Collaboration is an important solution to the challenges facing our addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery community today and moving forward. The Association for Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAP) has developed a new member benefits administrative and communications platform that is based on a dynamic collaborative benefits model.

The ASAP member benefits platform has been created to administer both a group purchasing structure of products and/or services at a reduced price for our members and to offer insurance, retirement, and employee benefits for our member organizations. The expanded consortial member benefits platform is fully active.

In conjunction with the new member benefits administrative platform, ASAP is launched a multi-level publishing venture. A career website, an industry resource guide, a weekly eNewsletter, a quarterly print publication, a community blog, and a social networking site will deliver career and business information to the northeast addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery community.

The publishing venture will also go out to high schools and higher education career counselors to provide them with much needed career path information for their students. The fall 2011 issue of Addiction Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Career print magazine, focusing on collaboration. The spring 2012 issue will focus on education and training in the addiction field.

The ASAP member benefits administrative and communications platform is only the beginning of the association taking the lead to deliver cooperative solutions to the many challenges our addiction treatment community faces each and every day.

About ASAPNYS
The Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State (ASAPNYS) is committed to working together to support organizations, groups and individuals that prevent and alleviate the profound personal, social and economic consequences of alcoholism and substance abuse. ASAP welcomes membership from coalitions, businesses, organizations and individuals who support ASAP’s mission and the interests of substance abuse prevention, treatment, research and training.

Prevention program members include both school- and community-based programs. Treatment program members include out-patient treatment, hospital based in-patient and community based residential treatment, methadone treatment, and vocational/educational service providers working in collaboration with treatment programs. Research and training members include universities, research institutes and training organizations. For more information about ASAPNYS, please visit www.asapnys.org.