These programs include the establishment of a treatment system for adolescents, early intervention and treatment programs in primary healthcare settings, jail diversion programs, re-entry services for those leaving state and county correctional facilities, and overdose prevention programs.

WHITEHOUSE: Michael Botticelli

Prior to joining ONDCP, Mr. Botticelli served as Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where he successfully expanded innovative and nationally recognized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

WHITEHOUSE: Michael Botticelli

He said the all-Wales obesity pathway sets out a four tiered approach for the prevention and treatment of obesity, from community based intervention to specialist medical and surgical services.

BBC: Obese child

Hybrid interventions that use technology and remote intervention components to enhance existing in-person treatment programs represent a new reality, especially by adding an obesity program with a connective technology system which provides mobile decision support (ie, calorie and activity feedback).

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Both telephone and internet-based treatment have produced weight loss comparable to an in-person intervention.

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Cato health policy analyst Michael Cannon noted that special interests successfully lobbied to require several new benefits, including drug-abuse treatment, early intervention for autism, hospice care, hormone replacement therapy, and non-in-vitro fertility services.

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