Treating Drug Abuse and Mental Health Simultaneously

by Alejandro_Cortés

Treating drug abuse and mental health simultaneously
Depression, PTDS, bi-polar disorder and other mental health issues can be a cause and an effect of drug or alcohol abuse. Studies show that nearly 9 million people have co-occurring disorders, but only about 7 percent receive proper treatment. In … Read more on YNN

Longer Looks: Bad Behavior Treatment; End Of Life Decisions
The physical complications of poverty, joblessness and epidemic rates of alcoholism, diabetes and depression spill over into the wards here at the only hospital on the Rosebud Reservation, which has a population of 13,000 and stretches across 1,970 … Read more on Kaiser Health News

Campus Health Centers Expand Services
More than 44 percent of student respondents reported feeling hopeless within the last 12 months, 85 percent felt overwhelmed, and 29.5 percent felt so depressed it was hard to function. In the last 12 months, 12.1 percent had … nurses and a … Read more on Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio

The Effects Of Alcohol – Film about what alcohol does to a teenage boy with information on the effects of alcohol depression and suicide.