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By Ross Lancaster
 The first scene of the Sundance-featured documentary "Web Junkie" begins with a group of young men playing the popular online game "World of Warcraft." With the game responsible for more than 100 million accounts worldwide, it's a scene that could take place in any country with broadband Internet access. But as the opening of the film takes place at an Internet café in China — the first country to deem Internet addiction a mental disorder — it takes on a greater significance.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The Employee Assistance Professionals Association is seeking qualified candidates for the position of EAPA chief executive officer. The CEO is an officer of the association, reports to the Board of Directors and serves as an ex-officio, nonvoting member of EAPA's Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and the Employee Assistance Certification Commission (EACC). Start date for the position will be Jan. 1, 2016. Completed applications, including resumes, must be submitted online no later than Saturday, Aug. 15.
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University of Washington via Psych Central
Many health care providers, like much of the general population, seem to be biased toward those who share their own sexual identity, according to a new study at the University of Washington.
Among heterosexual providers, the researchers found a widespread "moderate to strong" implicit preference for straight people over lesbian and gay people. Similarly, among lesbian and gay health providers, there is expressed implicit and explicit preferences for lesbian and gay people over straight people. Bisexual providers were found to have mixed preferences.
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Sovereign Health Group is a national treatment provider for
Addiction, Dual Diagnosis, and Mental Health for adults and adolescents
with support services for the family system. We offer multiple
treatment locations in the U.S. and Accept Most Private Insurance. We
are experienced in helping Employee Assistance Programs help their
employees get the treatment they deserve and need.
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Counsel & Heal
Rudeness spreads like flu in the workplace, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Florida found that people are more likely to perceive rudeness in social interactions if they've encountered rude behavior at work. This heightened sensitivity to rudeness then boosts the likelihood of people becoming impolite in return, according to researchers.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA has published the 2015 update of its comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of EAP Statistics and Research Articles. The bibliography, which includes hundreds of EAP-related research articles published in the U.S. and other countries from 2000 through June 2015, is a unique EAPA members-only benefit. Articles in the bibliography address EAP return-on-investment studies, program effectiveness research, and other important topics. A brief summary of each article is included in the bibliography, along with the publication reference. EA professionals, HR decision-makers, benefits brokers and others will find the bibliography to be a valuable resource in making evidence-based decisions affecting the future of individual programs and even the profession.
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Heroin addiction has become an epidemic, especially among younger
people. Suboxone (buprenorphine) has no tolerance build-up, produces
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The Daily Beast
As Egypt's travails drag on, more and more Egyptians are turning to tramadol to dull the pain of a stalled economy. From relative obscurity as recently as 2010, the opiate-like painkiller has surged ahead of heroin and is second only to cannabis (hashish and marijuana) in its popularity among Egypt's almost 90 million people, according to health officials.
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Star Tribune
Employers across Minnesota now have workers who face the pressure of caring for elderly parents with Alzheimer's, some of whom have the added burden of simultaneously caring for their young children.
These employees bring this stress to their workplace, which can affect productivity, morale and engagement.
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New York Post
We all know addiction is a disease. It has been so classified by all the authoritative sources. The American Medical Association labeled alcoholism an "illness" back in 1967. The Centers for Disease Control, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Alcoholics Anonymous urge us to think of alcohol and drug addiction as diseases. Addiction-as-disease is in some ways a thoroughly American idea. It ties together how we approach medicine (with a precisely defined target and a definitive program to fight it) and our proudly tolerant spirit in which being judgmental is seen as a kind of vice.
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Workplace Savings & Benefits
Half of Britain's senior managers and a quarter of lower grade employees are under near constant stress. And it appears the workplace is the biggest source of stress for both managers and employees with the same proportion (44 percent) of senior managers and employees stating they were most affected by stress in the workplace.
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The Sentinel
Tom Moriarty of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, is director of the Cumberland County Police Officers Support Team and an instructor through the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. He has provided debriefing services to school districts, businesses and individuals who experience trauma and helped first responders cope with the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City and the 2006 Amish school shooting in Lancaster County.
The same emotional toughness that allows first responders to cope with everyday trauma can work against them, Moriarty said. If they believe they can handle anything and that nothing could bother them, they are less willing to seek out help.
He explained how there can be trust issues associated with appearing weak in a work culture that prides itself with being tough in the face of crisis.
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