Recently Mt. Sinai Medical Center published a new study that demonstrated how intravenous (IV) ketamine treatment can reduce the symptoms of those suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Lavitt, 2014). The proof-of-concept, double-blind, randomized, crossover ...

The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC’s) biennial High School Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey, which examines teen marijuana use, reported that the rates of use were mostly unchanged from 2011 to 2013 (Ferner, 2014). During ...

Last week, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reported that in 2012, almost half of substance abuse treatment centers in the United States offered “counseling or medications” to help patients stop smoking ...

Epidemiological studies have shown that women who regularly drink alcohol increase their risk of breast cancer by 50 percent. However, little is known about how alcohol affects breast cancer growth, initiation, and aggressiveness.    Last ...

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) examined the efficacy of alcohol cessation drugs and determined that while they are effective, the drugs are not being prescribed regularly by ...

The terms “pro-ana,” and “pro-mia” have been around for some time, but only recently have the words “thinspiration” and “thigh gap” been seen circulating chat rooms, websites, and social media sites.    Pro-ana and pro-mia ...

According to Pentagon data, the number of prescriptions for painkillers written by military doctors to service members quadrupled between the years of 2001 and 2009, from 866,773 to 3.8 million (Turner, 2014). Medications like oxycodone, ...

National Prevention Week, a week of awareness and observance for mental health and substance abuse issues, began on Sunday, May 18 and will continue until Saturday, May 24. The theme of this year’s National Prevention ...

Earlier this month in Dallas, Texas, almost 120 people were admitted to emergency rooms for an overdose of K2, a type of synthetic marijuana (Winograd, 2014). The majority of cases occurred within a forty-eight hour ...

Last week, the National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council) launched Mental Health First Aid for Veterans, a new training program that offers veterans resources to effectively recognize and react to mental illness and addiction. ...