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Admissions rise
In the last ten years substance abuse treatment admissions have risen a total of 569.7 percent and that is just looking at a combined use of benzodiazepine and narcotic pain relievers. This information comes from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. When they looked at overall substance abuse treatment admissions in the same [...]
Your Cat making you Mentally Ill
Well yes, it is called Toxoplasma Infection. Or better known as Toxoplasmosis. There are some estimates out there that suggest between 30 and 50% of the global human population is infected. Wow what great numbers you have there. In Sweden the figure is nearer 20%. In the US the Centers for Disease Control and prevention [...]
AA, men and women are different
Just recently a study done by two Massachusetts General Hospital investigators found that many factors are helpful to AA participants some of these factors are stronger in men and some in women. One thing that AA advocates is to not get into social situation where drinking was what you usually did. This suggestion has a [...]
Anxiety
What is your definition of anxiety? Most of us think of it as just being really nervous. Did you know that it really can be useful at some times? It can alert us to some danger right ahead. Some people have anxiety persistently and that gets in the way of their lives each day like [...]
Why Self Injury?
As a parent do you know what self injury is? It is the act of deliberately destroying body tissue. There are children out there that do it to change a way of feeling. Some groups and cultures see this action a little different. It appears to have become more popular lately especially in teens. Here [...]
Teen Behavior
Just recently HealthDay News gave me some information about lower school grades and what causes them. It seems that depression was getting the blame but no it is not their depression it is their behavior. They way they determined this was to exam information from thousands of US teens that were tracked through their middle [...]
Cops and Marijuana
There is a group call Law Enforcement against Prohibition (LEAP) that is saying they are an organization composed of current and former law enforcement and criminal justice officials and they are opposed to existing drug policies. They got together and sent a letter to the US Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice [...]
Underage drinking
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is reporting that over a quarter of the population in the United States who are under the legal drinking age are drinking anyway. It seems that there has been progress made in decreasing the degree of underage drinking with kids aged 17 years or younger but the [...]
Smoke Free America
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released information on November 15, 2012 that indicated 60 percent of America’s biggest cities are now smoke-free. According to a study thirty of America’s 50 largest cities are now covered by laws that prohibit smoking in all indoor areas of private workplaces, restaurants, and bars. By late 2000 [...]
Calories from Alcoholic beverages
Us Americans we are obsessed with how much we weight and how we look each day. But you know it is somewhat funny that we are also very interested in our daily drinks that we imbibe in every day. Here are some interesting facts about what amounts of calories we consume each day in our [...]
Drug Rehab by State