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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Cruelty We Mistake for Compassion

Awareness and compassion without adequate treatment leave people with severe mental illness neglected, cycling through emergencies, jails, and preventable deaths.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Cruelty We Mistake for Compassion

Awareness and compassion without adequate treatment leave people with severe mental illness neglected, cycling through emergencies, jails, and preventable deaths.
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Medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

What the New Executive Order Means for Psychedelics

An executive order accelerates research on psychedelic treatments but does not equate to FDA approval or immediate availability.
Public health
fromwww.bbc.com
4 months ago

Life-extending prostate cancer drug to be offered to thousands in England

Abiraterone will be made available on the NHS in England to high-risk non-metastatic prostate cancer patients, potentially saving hundreds of lives annually.
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68

the odds of me recovering are essentially zero.
US news
Public health
fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

How Words Perpetuate Stigma Surrounding Addiction

Stigma significantly reduces treatment uptake for substance use disorders, resulting in low rates of evidence-based care despite high prevalence.
Public health
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 months ago

Tuberculosis kills 1.23 million people last year, WHO says

Tuberculosis cases and deaths declined in 2024, but a severe global funding shortfall risks reversing gains and could cause millions more cases and deaths.
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

Teen opioid addictions often untreated as youth overdose deaths rapidly rise in US study

Fewer than one in three teenagers with opioid use disorder receive treatment, according to a study published in this month's Health Affairs journal that looked at the disorder in minors from 2022 to 2023. In 2023, 557 teens died of opioid overdose, nearly threefold as many as in 2018, while adult opioid deaths only went up by 65% during this time, according to the study. Drug overdoses are now among the leading causes of death for US teenagers.
Public health
Public health
fromPsychology Today
8 months ago

You Can Beat Alcohol Use Disorder, Starting Now

Medications for alcohol use disorder are underutilized despite proven effectiveness, with structural, provider, and patient barriers causing low uptake.
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