The Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge played host to an unconventional baby shower this month as it collected donations for the reopening of its Mother and Child Unit. The program was cancelled in 2008, which was deemed...
A new study helps us to better understand the link between stress and negative health outcomes. Scientists may have identified the connection between chronic stress and heart attacks, according to a new study: white blood cells . “[They] are important to fight infection and healing, but if you have too many of them, or they are in the wrong place, they can be harmful,” said Matthias Nahrendorf of the Harvard Medical School, who was a co-author of the study, Agence...
The prevalence of cancers associated with risky behaviors such as drinking and smoking is on the rise in England. ACEs work have identified these same behaviors as maladaptive coping mechanisms. There has been a rise in rates of lifestyle-linked...
Prescription drugs may be used as maladaptive method to cope with emotional pain, but when putting restrictions on the drugs we also must consider the benefits for those dealing with physical pain. Prescriptions for narcotic painkillers have surged in...
A demonstration of anxiety in crayfish may help us understand the neuronal mechanisms of anxiety and stress in humans. For the first time, CNRS researchers and the Université de Bordeaux have produced and observed anxiety-like behavior in...
Without knowing about 'coherent narrative' and its role in processing trauma memory, I finally wrote "Last Chance at Normal" - the true story of my descent into the underworld of Los Angeles, journeying among drug lords and gang members as...
A pediatrician writes about the ACEs in the impoverished community in which he works. It's spring, and once again I find myself sitting on my back porch gazing at the disparities on the two sides of our modest backyard. On the sunny side, a dozen...
A hospital initiative in Los Angeles seeks to provide early intervention for toxic stress. An innovative program run by Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles is trying to head off mental health issues in older children by improving their home lives...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons This op-ed looks at how schools use abusive restraint and seclusion techniques for managing difficult children and suggests a move towards Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. “The test of the...
New research complicates our understanding of the relationship between emotions and weight gain (a relationship critical to our understanding of ACEs .) Antidepressants are the most-prescribed drugs in the U.S. for people between the...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons This new research may help us better understand the effects that parents stress and ACEs may have on their children. Women who take antidepressants during pregnancy may be unknowingly predisposing their infants to...
On Fox News last week, contributor Jesse Watters made some wildly ignorant and dismissive comments about men, boys and sexual assault. While discussing a statutory rape case involving a 46-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy, Watters said, “It...
Native American veterans battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder find relief and healing through an alternative treatment called the Sweat Lodge ceremony offered at the Spokane Veterans Administration Hospital. In the Arizona desert, wounded warriors...
Past research has established that child abuse can lead to alterations in brain structure. But the team involved in this latest study, including Joaquim Radua, a researcher at FIDMAG Sisters Hospitallers Foundation for Research and Teaching in Spain,...
[Gov. Rick Scott stands withDept. of Juvenile Justice Secretary Wansley Waters, left. Karl Etters photo] Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed a bill rewriting laws that govern the state Department of Juvenile Justice, reinforcing an emphasis on prevention, intervention and the rehabilitation of youthful offenders. The measure (HB 7055) formalizes the department’s strategy of shifting funds to prevention programs, with the aim of keeping kids out of the juvenile system in the first place.