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Telehealth for the Treatment of Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders

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This guide reviews ways that telehealth modalities can be used to provide treatment for serious mental illness and substance use disorders among adults, distills the research into recommendations for practice, and provides examples of how these recommendations can be implemented.

Publication ID
PEP21-06-02-001
Publication Date
June 2021

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