Mental health | Addiction Treatment Strategies

Living through weddings or divorces, job losses and children’s triumphs, we sometimes feel better and sometimes feel worse. But, psychologists observe, we tend to drift back to a “set point” — a stable resting point, or baseline, in the mind’s level of contentment…

A new national study shows that from 2005 to 2009 (the most recent year with available figures) there was a 49-percent increase in emergency department visits for drug related suicide attempts by women aged 50 and older — from 11,235 visits in 2005 to 16,757 in 2009. This increase…

There exists a large and soothing body of scientific literature suggesting that regular exercise can improve someone’s mood and fight anxiety. And then there is this experiment from Germany, in which researchers placed running wheels in the cages of a group of laboratory mice and let…

New laws expand mental health, addiction treatment
Bipolar Texas teen’s bill goes from $60 per therapy session to a $15 co-pay
By Michelle Andrews
As anyone who has ever sought help for addiction, depression or any other mental illness knows, insurance coverage is often…

DBT fits well in addiction treatment
by Nicholas A. Roes, PhD
We’ll order now what they ordered then, ‘Cause everything old is new again
“Everything Old Is New Again,” Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager
DBT” is a relatively new construct being used as the wrapping for some…

Nondirective meditation yields more marked changes in electrical brain wave activity associated with wakeful, relaxed attention, than just resting without any specific mental technique.

Study reveals new target for antidepressants
By Kate Kelland
 
LONDON (Reuters) – British scientists using human stem cells say they have found out how antidepressants make new brain cells — a finding that should help drug researchers develop better and more efficient…

A new report based on a national survey shows that only 1.2 percent of the nation’s more than 7.4 million adults aged 21 to 64 with an untreated alcohol abuse disorder perceive they could benefit from treatment. The report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services…

Parents with tweens or teens often wonder how to effectively parent their children so that the kids can make sound decisions even when their parents are not around, including decisions about drugs and alcohol.
 
A recent study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugshas confirmed…