Posts Tagged ‘mental health’

Medications For Alcohol Abuse in the News

Scientists identify promising target for development of new alcohol abuse …
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Ron noted that current alcohol-abuse medications have a very poor record of patient compliance, "because they shut off the whole reward system, which takes away all sense of pleasure, and so people feel very bad when they take them." In contrast, she …
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Baby boomers face mental health care shortage
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UNDATED (CNN) — Alcohol abuse, mental issues and drugs among baby boomers are some of the biggest drains on health resources in the United Kingdom. Here at home, our boomers are facing a shortage of quality mental health care, especially when …
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The Dangers Of Alcohol Abuse in the News

Valley Prevention Services reaches out to kids before the age of 1st use
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Geoffrey Arthur, executive director of Valley Prevention Services, realizes that in order to prevent kids from abusing drugs and alcohol, they need to be reached before the age of first use. The alarming age of 13, according to Arthur, is when …
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Training focuses on spotting 'trendy' drugs
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The effects can be unpredictable because they are made using chemicals, he said. Margaret Baker, a mental health practitioner at Richard Young Hospital in Kearney, attended Friday's training. Twenty-five years ago alcohol was the biggest abused …
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Medical experts weigh in on Hamilton
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Alcohol Abuse Therapy in the News

Trapped by an internet 'addiction,' obsessed surfers seek rehab help
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“And we've now had plenty of research to show that drug and alcohol addiction is real and exists.” Rae and Cash's treatment is a major commitment, consisting of residential therapy for a minimum of 45 days in a seven-bed facility outside of Seattle, Wash.
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Mourning after the night before
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But the findings of McKinney and others suggest short-term alcohol abuse can also have mental health consequences, even for those with no history of mental illness. End-of-year celebrations that offer regular and sustained drinking opportunities …
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Depression Alcohol Abuse in the News

Heroin highly addictive drug
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They can suffer from depression, which may then lead them to take more and more heroin in a vicious cycle that leaves them more susceptible to overdose. Continued use can lead to increased tolerance, which can lead them to that same vicious cycle.
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A Mesa County mental health nonprofit grows its services
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The local nonprofit ENLARGE. A painting produced by a Colorado West patient during a therapy session. The local nonprofit treats a variety of mental-health issues, from addiction and depression to emotional crisis and suicide, and everything in between.
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Question by Hail The Monolith: My country is odd… “Canada”?
Why is it that there are such high crime rates in the territories? Nunavut alone in 2009 had a higher violent crime average than the whole country. It was said that the per-capita rate of sexual assaults in the territory would make headlines in any U.S. inner city.

Like I am sure I generally understand that since they are territories they have something like their own Inuit government in place. But I am not sure it seems like in school we never went in depth on really why there are territories and whats separate them from provinces other than they dont have a crown and they derive their mandates and powers from the federal government not the constitution act like provinces.

Question by love meah: What are some and bad characteristics of a person suffering from BPD?

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Answer by Secret P
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects (mood swings), and marked Impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

dentity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.

.Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior. This can be manifested as overt suicide attempts, drug or alcohol abuse, unsafe sexual behavior, or as a pattern of “living dangerously”; this also includes cutting, burning, piercing, and sexual self mutilation.

.Chronic feelings of emptiness. (Generally manifested as sadness, loneliness, isolation, aimlessness, feeling empty without a project or relationship to distract them. People with BPD’s low self esteem is often masked by public displays of ego, feelings of superiority or an intense need to control themselves, other people, places and events.)