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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Awareness goals for the reduction of suicide ( Part two of our HereNOW Help series on suicide awareness ) By John C Riley | HereNOW Help Staff Why does this matter? Suicide is a troubling public health issue that leaves…
By Beth Salcedo, MD – NAMI When a person experiences two or more illnesses at the same time, those illnesses are considered “comorbid.” This concept has become the rule, not the exception, in many areas of medicine, and certainly in…
By ASHLEIGH GRAY Lindsey Vonn got candid while speaking with MSNBC reporter Nicolle Wallace about her mental health journey. The 37-year-old athlete was a guest on the network’s limited series Deadline: Special Report, where she noted she was diagnosed with depression. ‘I was diagnosed…
Nurselabs.com What is Substance Abuse? Drug abuse and drug dependence represent different ends of the same disease process. Drug abuse is an intense desire to use increasing amounts of a particular substance or substances to the exclusion of other activities. Drug dependence is the body’s…
Destinations For Teens Staff contribution The medical and mental health communities view addiction in teens as a chronic and relapsing disease of the brain that causes compulsive drug-seeking behaviors and the use of drugs or alcohol despite negative consequences. Initially,…