Opinion | For a Firefighter Struggling With Trauma, Ketamine Therapy Offers Hope
Emergency workers may experience over 180 critical incidents throughout their career.
Major institutions like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Department of Veterans Affairs support research into psychedelics for behavioral health issues. [ more ]
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Depiction of Amy Winehouse in film 'Amy' criticized for lacking essence and focusing on her struggles with substance abuse and eventual death. [ more ]
Everything Taylor Swift's New Album Seemingly Tells Us About Her 9-Year Situationship With Matty Healy
Key Takeaway: The article provides important helpline numbers for individuals struggling with substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, and LGBTQ youth. [ more ]
This is your brain on crypto: Substance abuse grows among crypto traders
Cryptocurrency trading is associated with substance abuse, with users often turning to stimulants like amphetamines and cocaine to keep up with the intense trading pace.
Benzodiazepines, such as Xanax and Valium, are also commonly used among crypto traders to help them come down from the high of trading. [ more ]
May was worst month for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco since 2020 despite crackdown
(Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)
Despite a state crackdown to seize fentanyl and arrest its traffickers and dealers in San Francisco, more of the city's residents fatally overdosed on the synthetic opioid in May than in any month since at least 2020, according to city and county data.The California Highway Patrol has seized more than eight pounds of fentanyl in the city's Tenderloin district and its surrounding areas since May, following the governor's announcement of a task force with state and local authorities targeting traffickers and dealers.
Red Hook's new Family Health Center aims to address longstanding lack of medical resources in the nabe * Brooklyn Paper
Photo courtesy of Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams A new community-based health clinic opened in Red Hook this week, aiming to provide extra care for a community that has long lacked adequate healthcare resources.
Real solutions to violence require addressing root causes, including poverty, substance abuse and community health.What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution and prison actually look like?And how would they work?A group of Chicago's leading public safety, health, and justice innovators gathered at the DePaul Art Museum last summer to provide much-needed clarity on these crucial questions.
Calm Sage - Your Guide to Mental and Emotional Well-being
13 Myths about Grief and What You Should Do About Them
1. Grief is not linear â Everyone experiences grief differently, so don't expect to follow a prescribed timeline or pattern.
2. Grief is not a sign of weakness â Feeling emotions like sadness, anger, and guilt are all part of the process of mourning and should not be seen as a sign of weakness.
3. Coping with grief is a healthy process â Seeking professional help, such as counseling or therapy, can provide an outlet to process difficult emotions and [ more ]
Portland City Council Will Consider Public Camping Ban Ordinance That Would Fine, Jail Unhoused Residents
An ordinance restricting daytime homeless camping in public right-of-ways is expected to be introduced by Mayor Ted Wheeler at the May 31 Portland City Council meeting.Wheeler's ordinance would ban camping on public sidewalks, parks, docks, and within 250 feet of construction sites, schools, daycares, existing shelters, high crash corridors, and environmental overlay zones.
Cassandra Jackson was in her 30s when she first encountered the expression replacement child, and it took her breath away.Coined by psychologists in the '60s to describe a son or daughter conceived to fill the void after another child's death, the term is the closest I will come, Jackson writes in her anguished, affecting memoir, THE WRECK: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother (Viking, 307 pp., $28), to a name for what I am.
Magic mushrooms studied for potential therapeutic effects
Research on psychedelics is making a comeback.Magic mushrooms are being studied for their potential therapeutic effects on conditions like depression, anxiety and substance abuse.Watch "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper" Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
Few are tackling stigma in addiction care. Some in Seattle want to change that
Johnny Bousquet should have gone to urgent care earlier.He has insurance and plenty of sick time.But after decades of feeling beat up, ignored, and shamed by the medical system as a recovering addict, Bousquet says he avoids it all together often choosing instead to engage in a game of chicken with whatever ailment he's battling.
The Differences Between Constructive And Destructive Anger
1. It is important to recognize the difference between constructive and destructive anger in order to effectively manage it. 2. Constructive anger can be used as a tool to motivate and make positive changes, while destructive anger can lead to negative behavior and harmful outcomes. 3. It is important to find
People can get controlled medications via telehealth for awhile longer, DEA says
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple.Sign up for CNN's Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being.As the expiration of the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration approaches, the US Drug Enforcement Administration has extended the flexibilities regarding the prescription of controlled medications via telehealth.
Editorial: Report on Catholic clergy child sex abuse lays out a shameful chapter in Illinois history
The Illinois attorney general's gut-wrenching 696-page report on Catholic clergy child sex abuse in Illinois is illustrated, incongruously but perhaps necessarily, with aspirational images of the Prairie State: cornfields at sunrise, the shimmering waters of Lake Michigan, sunsets over lakes and barns, gorgeous stained glass windows.
Reports: 4 Dorchester middle schoolers hospitalized after consuming edibles
Local This is the second time in six weeks that students from Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School have been hospitalized after consuming edibles.Four students from Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School in Dorchester were hospitalized Tuesday morning after ingesting what school officials and police believe to be cannabis-infused chocolate edibles, according to several reports.
Ask Amy: My mom's lie about my high school graduation was the last straw
Dear Amy: I have a very difficult and stressful relationship with my mother, and I don't know what to do about it.I am 19 years old.My mother is an addict and an alcoholic, and she missed out on much of my early childhood years because of it.When I was around 8, she finally sobered up, but she still has a multitude of psychological problems, most likely stemming from years of substance abuse, and she never really grew up.
'We Were Once a Family' exposes ills of U.S. child welfare system
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The saga of the Hart family murder-suicide slammed the zeitgeist in 2018 with its brutal combination of cruelty, violence and social media narcissism.In late March of 2018, Jennifer Hart and her wife Sarah drove their family off a cliff.Seated in the back seat of their SUV were Ciera, Abigail, Jeremiah, Devonte, Hannah and Markis all between 12 and 19 years old.
'We Were Once a Family' exposes ills of U.S. child welfare system
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The saga of the Hart family murder-suicide slammed the zeitgeist in 2018 with its brutal combination of cruelty, violence and social media narcissism.In late March of 2018, Jennifer Hart and her wife Sarah drove their family off a cliff.Seated in the back seat of their SUV were Ciera, Abigail, Jeremiah, Devonte, Hannah and Markis all between 12 and 19 years old.
Jakub Vrana and Anthony Mantha, linked by a trade, are still searching for success
Jakub Vrana helped Washington win the Stanley Cup but was later traded to Detroit.(Paul Sancya/AP)Jakub Vrana bit his lip and glanced up at the Capital One Arena video board during a break in the first period Tuesday night.There, he saw a loop of footage of himself as a Washington Capital: the day he was drafted, the night he scored a goal in an outdoor game in Annapolis, the celebration in the streets of Washington after the team's Stanley Cup win in 2018.
Two Bay Area Men Sentenced to Multiple Years in Prison for Plot to Destroy California Democratic Party Headquarters | KQED
Breyer also ordered a psychiatric evaluation to assess the level of threat Rogers poses to the public.The report is confidential, but Rogers' attorney Colin Cooper said the evaluator concluded his client was at low risk for reoffending.In October, Rogers submitted a handwritten letter to Breyer.I was wrong to think about causing damage to any building or anyone.
Tom Sizemore: The Hollywood hardman who fell from grace
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Tom Sizemore made a name for himself as a quintessential Hollywood hardman, after starring in multiple high-octane thrillers.The US actor carved out his niche in the 90s, though he later fell from grace following a string of convictions and substance abuse issues.
Amsterdam Bans Marijuana Smoking on Streets of Red-Light District
Amsterdam will soon ban the smoking of marijuana on the streets of its popular red-light district, according to rules introduced on Thursday that are aimed at cracking down on the noisy tourists that local residents have long complained about.This should reduce the nuisance caused by drug use in public spaces, particularly by tourists, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam said in a statement.
Nick Kyrgios Withdraws From Australian Open With Knee Injury
MELBOURNE, Australia After spending the past week receiving all the laurels of a hometown favorite, Nick Kyrgios suddenly withdrew from the Australian Open on Monday with a knee injury, a little more than 24 hours ahead of his scheduled first-round match.In an interview Friday, Kyrgios, the temperamental Australian star who was a finalist at Wimbledon last year, said he had been battling soreness in his left knee during the off-season, but he expected to be able to play in the year's first Grand Slam.
Family starts GoFundMe for Stoughton murder victim's funeral expenses
Family members have launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to help cover funeral expenses for Amber Buckner, the 40-year-old victim of an apparent homicide who police said was found dead at a Stoughton residence on Tuesday.The online campaign, launched Wednesday by Deborah Curran, the partner of Buckner's father, wrote Buckner was murdered "sometime Monday night."
More data has emerged suggesting spanking is both ineffective and harmful to kids.A study published in the Journal of Pediatrics has revealed that kids who are spanked have behavioral issues similar to children who have been neglected and abused.And the researchers are making a call for change."The question we need to consider when we talk about spanking is, how should we define hitting that's okay?" explains Julie Ma, Ph.D., lead researcher of the study and a professor of social work at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Nationals release pitcher Seth Romero after his second DWI charge of 2022
Seth Romero was a first-round draft pick in 2017.(Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) The Washington Nationals on Monday released Seth Romero, according to a team spokeswoman, after the left-hander was arrested for driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance Sunday in Sweeny, Tex.