Posts Tagged ‘mental health’

Alcoholism Center Treatment in the News

Calendar — Aug. 6
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Compassionate Friends — 7:30 p.m., Butler County Health Care Center, David City. For more information call 402-563-1029. Alcoholics Anonymous Young People's Group — 8 p.m., 12 &12 Club, 2407 13th St. open/nonsmoking. For more information call …
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Prince William County health calendar
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Pulmonary support group for people with chronic respiratory disease and their families. Noon-1 p.m., Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, 2300 Opitz Blvd., Woodbridge. Free. 703-670-1881, 540-659-1800, Ext. 1881. Alcoholics Anonymous 8:30 p.m., …
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Marijuana CAN Cure Alcohol Addiction
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… about it in college, and started studying the subject. He became the director of non-classified marijuana research at the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Narcotics and drug abuse studies in 1967, based in Washington DC. … In the …
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Frequent users of marijuana, alcohol already know health risks, study shows
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Users of marijuana and alcohol may be savvier about the health risks posed by these substances than those who abstain, new research suggests.
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Illicit drug use rising among pregnant women
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Although alcohol use has decreased among pregnant women during a recent 10-year period, illicit drug use in that population is increasing, said a report issued July 25 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Coming soon, personalized treatments for alcoholics
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Washington, Aug 5 (ANI): An experimental treatment for alcohol dependence works better in individuals who possess specific combinations of genes that regulate the function and binding of serotonin, a brain chemical affected by the treatment, A new study has revealed.
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Living With Alcoholics in the News

Zann hopes to help battle stigma of mental illness
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She sought help from Alcoholics Anonymous. “I actually decided that the braver choice was to get sober and to face my fears and to face growing older as a woman, as an actress and to live and to try and help others,” Zann said. “I felt that once I had …
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Psychiatrists: the drug pushers
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By the early 1990s many long-stay inmates had been returned to the outside world, but their lives were for the most part still grossly circumscribed: living in sheltered accommodation and visited by mental health teams, confined not by physical walls …
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Community calendar: Mountain bike camp at various locations through Thursday
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Teenage Alcoholism Facts in the News

Ask a Trooper: A number of facts regarding marijuana
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Ask a Trooper: A number of facts regarding marijuana. By Trooper Curt Mowers … According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), more teens were in treatment for marijuana than for all other illicit drugs combined …
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Letter: Black-white shooting not parallel
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Cathy Young's recent column cited Roderick Scott, a black man who shot and killed a white teenager, Christopher Cervini, in Greece, N.Y., in 2009 and was acquitted of manslaughter ["Look deeper at race and self-defense," Opinion, July 23]. This case …
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Justin Bieber denies spitting on fans: A complete timeline of his most …
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Common Symptoms Of Stress in the News

The Woman Who Ate Cutlery
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There are psychiatric patients who cut or burn themselves in an attempt to relieve mental anguish; M did both of these things, too, periodically, but she had primarily developed a maladaptive habit of ingesting or inserting dangerous objects into her …
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Mental health: The many uncommon ways stress can affect your body
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Many people would experience your typical stress symptoms – sleepless nights, worrying during the day, inability to eat (or lots of emotional eating), stomachaches, headaches, etc. However – this whole thing is affecting you mentally. Stress can make …
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Alcoholism Support Groups in the News

Some local churches look beyond worship
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The church added a two-story building that features a lounge for teenagers and classrooms for preschool students. The space also hosts Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in English and Spanish, Boy Scout groups, cancer-support groups and more. Another …
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Bump Seen in Substance Abuse Treatment During Pregnancy
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However, the percentage of pregnant women receiving treatment for drug use (without alcohol use) rose from just over 51 percent to nearly 64 percent, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) report …
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Oakley author's 'West of Independence' is a personal tale
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