Situational awareness basics — look and listen : Mental environment

U.S. Fire Administration This is the second bulletin in a two-part series on situational awareness for the physical and mental environments. In Part 1: Physical Environment, you will learn how to identify situational awareness deficiencies and open up to a broader…

A “Creepy” Art Therapy Activity for Halloween

http://www.arttherapyblog.com/ It’s that time of year again, when the air and leaves are crisp. It’s a colorful time for many and winter is fast-approaching. Halloween is almost here which means Thanksgiving and Christmas will be here before you know it! This…

Coping with Losing a Pet – Mental Health Help

Authors: Lawrence Robinson, Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Robert Segal, M.A. Preface by John Riley Hello, Publisher here and I wanted to share something with you. Yesterday we lost our second pet dog, his name was Jack Jack (white and brown…

Most Read Articles

Japan’s “Hikikomori” Population Could Top 10 Million

What type of Mental Illness is this and is there a solution? Collected and published by John Riley and brought to you by Nippon.com & frontiersin.org Hikikomori has been defined by a Japanese expert group as having the following characteristics: (1)…

Celebrities Who Are Open About Addiction

 Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on September 10, 2020 Robert Downey Jr. The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s…

Can smartphones help predict suicide?

By Ellen Barry | The New York Times Special thanks to Japantimes.com for making this article available Katelin Cruz at a park near her home in Ware, Mass., on Sept. 1, 2022. Cruz uses a phone and FitBit to submit…

Substance use treatment for Veterans support and US Locations map guide

U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs As the resident Veteran for HereNOW Help I wanted to share the resources that have afforded many of my Veteran brothers and sisters throughout the entire United States. If you know someone who is a…

Almost 60 percent of pregnant teens say they have used one or more substances in the past year, nearly double the rate of non-pregnant teens, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found.

Use of these substances continues during pregnancy, especially among younger teens, the study found. More than one-third of all pregnant teens ages 12 to 14 said they used one or more substances in the previous month, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Pregnant teens…

CDC says more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, setting ‘staggering’ record

Mike Stobbe, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday. The provisional 2021…

A Young Man with Substance Abuse and Comorbidity of Multiple Paraphilia: A Case Report

Farzaneh Dehghani1 , * , Azadeh Rahavi1 , Reza Bidaki1 , 2 Department of Psychiatry, Research Center of Addiction and Behavioral Sciences, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran2 Diabetes Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran* Corresponding Author: Department of Psychiatry, Research Center of…

Skip to content