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Eating Disorders: Early Warning Signs and Assessment
…Eating of non-food items is not uncommon. These disorders are often overlooked medical illnesses due to co-morbidity. The complexity of chief complaints and differences in presentation can leave a clinician…
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The Myths, Abuses and Pseudoscience Surrounding “Evidence Based Medicine”
…criteria for inclusion. Meta-analyses are methods of combining data from numerous concluded studies supposedly treating a given illness with some common therapy. EO would also rely on things such as…
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Senior Volunteer Programs Provide More than Service
…County on Long Island since 1977. This program along with the Senior Companion Program, are national volunteer programs that are administered through the Corporation for National and Community Service. They…
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Congressional Mental Health Policy Reform: Hope or Hype?
…Coordinate Federal Efforts Related to Serious Mental Illness. December, 2014. http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-113 Comptroller General of The United States. Returning the Mentally Disabled to the Community: Government Needs to Do More. United…
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Integrated Treatment for Successful Aging
…Dillip Jeste and his colleagues say that they found 28 research studies that met their standards of research and that within these studies they found 29 definitions of successful aging….
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What Do We Know About the Relationship Between Cannabis and Psychosis?
…results on drug use 1975-2021: Overview, key findings on adolescent drug use. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. https://monitoringthefuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/mtf-overview2021.pdf Volkow ND, Baier RD, Compton WM, et al….
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Substance Use Disorder Prevention and Treatment Services: A Social Justice and Health Equity Perspective
…different communities, necessitating culturally competent care to ensure effective treatment. The impact of SUD on marginalized communities intersects with various social determinants of health, such as housing instability, food insecurity,…
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Helping Moms and Kids
…our own communities, so that we can treat maternal depression, once and all. This article was printed with permission from the Beacon Lens Blog and can be visited at http://beaconlens.com/helping-moms-and-kids….
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Using Virtual Reality for Treatment and Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress and Other Anxiety Disorders
…managed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Human Research and Engineering Division, Simulation and Training Technology Center. The innovations developed by this research center represent the start of a rapidly…
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Understanding Co-Occurring Disorders
…health or substance use disorder. Once a person has screened positive, it is important to complete a comprehensive assessment. Co-occurring disorders are not monolithic. Someone at a substance use disorder…
