“Philip Seymour Hoffman is another victim of extremely stupid drug laws,” writes Russell Brand in The Guardian on Feb. 6 at www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/06/russell-brand-philip-seymour-hoffman-drug-laws I posted this...
Once again, I was struck by the number of those with the chronic relapsing brain disease of addiction in the audience at a lecture I gave last night who have four or five of the five key risk factors for developing addiction. Not only that, but...
The overhaul at Cooper University Hospital begins in the waiting room. As recently as last summer, this office was in rough shape. Carpet was patched with mismatched swatches; there were walls that time forgot. "That a wall could be stained...
University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that chronic stress generates long-term changes in the brain that may explain why people suffering chronic stress are prone to mental problems such as anxiety and mood disorders later in...
Child victims of abuse should not pay a price for remaining silent, Supreme Court Justice Edna Arbel said. She spoke during her opening speech at the Beersheba Conference on the Welfare of the Child, which took place on Monday and Tuesday...
A new draft law in Afghanistan that would limit testimony in domestic violence cases is drawing international outcry, with activists warning it is part of a broader trend toward rolling back women's rights in the nation. Afghanistan's parliament last...
A pediatric expert with the University of Louisville and Kosair is working to stop the violence before it becomes deadly, using "baby bruises" to spot the abuse. Any parent will tell you that kids bruise, but Dr. Melissa Currie is teaching medical...
According to the American College Health Association's most recent annual national survey, 30 percent of college students reported feeling "so depressed that it was difficult to function" at some time over the past year. Nearly three fourths of...
Young girls with mental illness are three times more likely to become teenage parents than those without a major mental illness, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Women's...
There are few areas as replete with myth as heroin use. Common misconceptions include that this is a problem of young people, that there are a large number of highly functioning "recreational" users of the drug, and that overdose deaths are due to...
...Every student at Elmhurst, in the Oakland Unified school district, attends the expanded learning program, making it part of their normal school day. Classes begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m., at least two hours after most other Oakland students are...
Teens across the USA are feeling high levels of stress that they say negatively affect every aspect of their lives, a new national survey suggests. More than a quarter (27%) say they experience "extreme stress" during the school year, vs. 13% in the...
While counseling by phone remains far more prevalent, texting has become such a fundamental way to communicate, particularly among people under 20, that crisis groups have begun to adopt it as an alternative way of providing emergency services and...
The Center for Health Program Management, and funding partners Sierra Health Foundation, The California Endowment and The California Wellness Foundation, announced that $1.6 million in grant funding has been awarded to four counties to implement an...