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Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 hours ago

Why does alcohol make us both happy and miserable and what else does it do to our minds and bodies?

Alcohol is versatile, affecting multiple neurotransmitters and serving various roles in human behavior and experience.
Public health
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

How Methamphetamines Can Lead to Violence

Alcohol is the strongest, most reproducible contributor to partner and interpersonal violence, with stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine also linked to violent crimes.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Prescribing Psychology Is Undergoing Rapid Expansion

Prescribing psychologists are expanding across multiple states and agencies, showing comparable safety and efficacy to physicians while improving access amid a severe mental health provider shortage.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

David Enoch obituary

My friend David Enoch, who has died aged 99, made his greatest mark as a campaigner for humane mental health care and was a founding fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. In the 1960s he served as a medical adviser to Barbara Robb, the psychotherapist who exposed neglect and abuse in long-stay NHS psychiatric wards and, through her controversial book Sans Everything (1967), pushed for major reforms.
Mental health
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