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CASAT Conversations Podcast

The CASAT Conversations podcast is a resource for exploring behavioral health topics. These topics explore the complex connection between how our environment, behaviors and actions impact our health and wellbeing. With a wide-range of timely topics, CASAT Conversations is geared towards having meaningful conversations with people sharing their capacity for personal growth and change, along with expert educational insights.

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Our Learning Labs are collections of curated references for each behavioral health topic to help increase subject literacy, knowledge, skills, and overall competence in providing high-quality, cutting-edge services.

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Understanding the Opioid Overdose Crisis: Prevention, Harm Reduction, and National Action

Driven largely by synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl, the overdose epidemic remains a critical public health crisis that requires urgent public awareness, early symptom recognition, and expanded harm reduction strategies. Lifesaving tools such as naloxone and fentanyl test strips, backed by Good Samaritan laws, empower bystanders to intervene immediately during respiratory failure. To combat systemic stigma and broaden community access to evidence-based care, SAMHSA’s #EndOverdose initiative mobilizes national efforts to educate the public, honor lost loved ones, and reframe substance use disorder as a treatable health condition. Ultimately, preventing overdose deaths relies on integrating community education, destigmatizing addiction, and expanding accessible care.

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Mid-Year Mental Health Audit: Evaluating Your Coping Mechanisms

Mid-Year Mental Health Audit: Evaluating Your Coping Mechanisms As summer winds down and daily routines shift. August serves as a critical midpoint to pause and evaluate psychological well-being. Prolonged stress often builds insidiously, leading to physical fatigue and emotional depletion if left unmanaged (American Psychological Association, 2023). Performing a mid-year mental health audit allows individuals to assess their current stress
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The Power of Boundaries: How to Practice Radical Self-Care When a Loved One Won’t Get Help

When someone you love is drowning in a mental health crisis or a substance use disorder, your immediate instinct is to dive in after them. You swim fiercely against the current, burning through your own energy reserves, trying to drag them back to shore. But what happens when they keep pulling you under or worse, when they refuse to grab the lifeline you’re offering? Watching a loved one refuse professional help is an agonizing, deeply exhausting experience. It can easily drive you into a state of chronic hypervigilance, sleeplessness, and eventual resentment. But here is the hard, liberating truth: You cannot rescue someone who isn’t ready to swim. Protecting your own mental health in these moments isn’t selfish; it’s an act of radical self-care. Here is how you can reclaim your peace, set unbreakable boundaries, and learn the crucial art of “detaching with love.”

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