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... The most important finding, perhaps, is that while most participants in the study appeared to be coping with social isolation, a majority said they were more worried about contracting the virus than about suffering a mental health relapse.
The study, appearing in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, assessed 73 seniors with an average age of 69, drawn from a study of 743 seniors already participating in a clinical trial called OPTIMUM (Optimizing Outcomes of Treatment-Resistant Depression in Older Adults). The 73 participants live in four cities: New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. Two-thirds were women. When enrolling in the OPTIMUM study, all had depression that had resisted treatment with conventional therapies such as antidepressant medicines and psychotherapy.
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National Teen Driver Safety Week runs this week, October 18–24 and Connecticut, which has some of the toughest laws in the country, saw last year the highest number of 16- and 17-year-old drivers killed in crashes since the laws were passed 12 years ago.
This is a serious signal that parents, law enforcement, state licensing and transportation officials — and most of all, teen drivers themselves — need to heed. In 2019 five teen drivers and three passengers died, the most teen drivers killed in any one year since 2008 when stronger laws were passed to help prevent such crashes. After years of great progress, this is an alarming uptick in teen driver fatalities and no doubt there are injuries in other crashes without fatalities.
In fact, more 17-year-old drivers and passengers combined died in crashes from 2015 through October 2020, according to state-compiled crash reports, than 16-year-olds for that same time period.
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... Recently, a demographic shift has been observed in the epidemic with dramatic increases in opioid misuse and overdose deaths among Hispanic/Latino*, African American, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations. As Hispanic/Latinos are one of the fastest growing minority populations—expected to comprise nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population by 2060(5)—it becomes imperative to understand the unique sociocultural factors that influence drug use and access to prevention, treatment and recovery in this population.
As society moves away from criminalizing drug use behavior to understanding it as a preventable, treatable chronic health condition, this public health approach needs to be inclusive of and tailored to
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While opioids were grabbing the headlines, cocaine overdose deaths in the United States have marched upward, nearly tripling over five years, a new government report shows.
After a period of stability, cocaine-induced deaths rose by about 27% per year, on average, from 2013 through 2018, researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
"While much attention has been given to the increase in drug overdose deaths involving opioids, it's also important to recognize that deaths involving other drugs, such as cocaine, have also increased in recent years," said Dr. Holly Hedegaard, lead researcher and injury epidemiologist at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Read full article.
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Emotional Wellness Tips from Brené Brown
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The Hub: Behavioral Health Action Organization for Southwestern CT
A division of the Regional Youth Adult Social Action Partnership (RYASAP)
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