2022-05-13 What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in US drug overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains Only a small amount of fentanyl is enough to be lethal. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical School Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, […]
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The Benefits and Burden of Being an Empath
The Benefits and Burden of Being an Empath By Dr. Dawn Brown In general, empathy is a very positive trait. We want to be understood by the people around us and receiving empathy lets us know we’re being listened to. Empathizing with another’s pain can bring comfort. It can make one a […]
Mental Health Friday 2022-05-13 – Depression
On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and seek professional help for what ails you. Today’s Topic: […]
Travel Nurses See Swift Change of Fortunes as Covid Money Runs Dry
2022-05-12 Travel Nurses See Swift Change of Fortunes as Covid Money Runs Dry Hannah Norman, Kaiser Health News Tiffanie Jones was a few tanks of gas into her drive from Tampa, Florida, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she found out her travel nurse contract had been canceled. Jones, who has been a nurse for […]
ADHD in adults is challenging but highly treatable – a clinical psychologist explains
2022-05-12 ADHD in adults is challenging but highly treatable – a clinical psychologist explains ADHD wasn’t recognized as a condition that can have profound effects on adults until the 1990s. SIphotography/iStock via Getty Images Plus Laura E. Knouse, University of Richmond When I was a child in the 1980s, the people I knew with attention-deficit/hyperactivity […]
Money Can Not Buy You Happiness
Money Can Not Buy You Happiness I am sure there will be many people who read this article and will think I am rather mad. Quite frankly I do not care. In this article I write about what in my humble opinion are the most importants things in life, health and […]
The Families of Trans Kids in Texas Consider Their Options Amid Crackdown on Care
2022-05-11 The Families of Trans Kids in Texas Consider Their Options Amid Crackdown on Care Sandy West Cameron Wright, 16, has always seen himself as a “dude.” As a young child, Cameron didn’t have the words to explain the disconnect between how he saw himself and how the world saw him. But he […]
Book Review: Anatomy of an Environmental Tragedy
2022-05-11 Book Review: Anatomy of an Environmental Tragedy by Peter Andrey Smith By the late 1970s, the odor seemed just about everywhere on the east side of Niagara Falls, New York, in a neighborhood with thousands of residents and two area public schools. Noxious fumes seeped into basements. The stench filled backyards. It clung to one […]
Social Work Paper – Understanding the Diverse Group of Adolescent Homosexual Male Minorities
Social Work Paper – Understanding the Diverse Group of Adolescent Homosexual Male Minorities: The Challenges of Working With People of All Backgrounds Consider the following introduction of one of the most famous documents ever created in the United States of America; The Declaration of Independence. “When in the Course of human events, […]
National Addiction Treatment Locator Has Outdated Data and Other Critical Flaws
2022-05-10 National Addiction Treatment Locator Has Outdated Data and Other Critical Flaws Aneri Pattani At a psychiatric hospital in Michigan, Dr. Cara Poland’s patients were handed a sheet of paper to find follow-up care. The hospital had entered local ZIP codes on a website — run by the nation’s top substance use and […]