mental health

Why Is It That Every Time Someone Goes Through a Bad Point in Life, They Have to Start a Foundation?

Question by losingfaithinus: Why is it that every time someone goes through a bad point in life, they have to start a foundation?
When family members and friends die from suicide, drug abuse, sickness or what have you, the family feels a need to make ANOTHER foundation just for that… Continue reading

What Is the Secret to Becoming Autonomous When You Are in a Codependent Relationship?

Question by Eccentric Dad: What is the secret to becoming autonomous when you are in a codependent relationship?
I am the one who is addicted to my wife and my wife is the one who is dependent of me. How do I overcome my addiction to my wife and force… Continue reading

Time Counts for Mental-Health Patients

Time counts for mental-health patients
Per-capita spending on mental-health services in the state, when adjusted by the medical rate of inflation, dropped 28 percent from 1981 to 1990, according to data collected by the National State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute Inc … Read more on The Durango Herald… Continue reading

Suicide at the Brattleboro Retreat Raises Questions

Suicide at the Brattleboro Retreat raises questions
After six days of intensive inpatient care at the Retreat for mental health and addiction treatment, Siano was released to the Birches Treatment Center, a Retreat outpatient care program, on Aug. 28. On Labor Day weekend, Siano, who had a history of … Read… Continue reading

Drug Experts Suspicious of Local Krokodil Reports

Drug experts suspicious of local krokodil reports
“What I think we're seeing in the suburbs is doctors who haven't seen injection drug use that much and are treating some bad-looking infections related to nonsterile injection equipment,” Kane-Willis said. Krokodil has a significantly shorter high at … Read more on Northwest… Continue reading

Documentary Sheds Light on Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teens – KTVB

Documentary sheds light on prescription drug abuse among teens – KTVB


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Documentary sheds light on prescription drug abuse among teens
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According to a survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Idaho is fourth in the nation for non-medical prescription pain reliever abuse for ages 12… Continue reading