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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
The EAPA Board of Directors has authorized two Hennessy Scholarships for the 2015 Annual World EAP Conference in San Diego, California, Sept. 29 - Oct. 2. The scholarships (one for an EAPA member affiliated with a labor program, and one for an EAPA member not affiliated with a labor program) will provide full conference registration for two deserving applicants. With only two scholarships available, this will be a competitive process with applications and letters of reference due to the selection task force not later than Friday, Aug. 21.
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The Basis
The American Psychiatric Association updated its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders during 2013. The resulting DSM-5 changed some of the diagnostic categories. For example, the DSM-5 combined alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence into one single construct called Alcohol Use Disorder. AUDs are highly prevalent in the United States, and people with AUDs often experience other forms of mental illness. However, published national estimates of AUD prevalence are based on older DSM-IV criteria, considering abuse and dependence separately. This article reviews the first nationally representative study on the prevalence and comorbidity of AUD in the general population.
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US Department of Labor
EAPA and its members have been asked to participate in a national online dialogue sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. The goal is to establish work as an accountable health outcome. The particular challenges to be addressed are how to reduce the number of working adults who lose their jobs or leave the workforce due to a health condition — including substance abuse or depression; and how to increase the number of workers who get the help they need to stay employed. The online dialogue is open for input until Friday, Aug. 14 at 11:59 a.m. EDT. Please take the time to share your ideas and suggestions by commenting on the six policy recommendations listed on the dialog website.
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We are a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility that specialize in personalized care for our patients. We are a medically supervised holistic drug rehab center that recognizes the requirement for an alternative approach to drug rehabilitation. We combine holistic and alternative methods with the 12-step program to ensure the best possible results.
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McMaster University via Medical Xpress
Scientists from the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute at McMaster University have discovered that intestinal bacteria play an important role in inducing anxiety and depression. The new study, published recently in Nature Communications, is the first to explore the role of intestinal microbiota in the altered behavior that is a consequence of early-life stress.
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SAMHSA
EAPs are encouraged to participate in the planning for U.S. National Recovery Month, which takes place every September. SAMHSA sponsors Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use issues and to celebrate the people who recover. Organizing, sponsoring or participating in an event for Recovery Month is an ideal way to celebrate the achievements of the recovery community and educate your employee population. Events bring people together to share real-life experiences of the power of recovery from mental health and/or substance use disorders.
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Heroin addiction has become an epidemic, especially among younger
people. Suboxone (buprenorphine) has no tolerance build-up, produces
miraculous reductions of withdrawal symptoms and higher outcomes for
long-term recovery from opiates. Learn More
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Psych Central
New research addresses a topic that may resonate with many as investigators study the ways in which stress and mental frustration can leave us physically tired and worn out.
In the study, Ranjana Mehta, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health, evaluated this interaction between physical and mental fatigue and brain behavior.
Typically, endurance and fatigue have been examined solely from a physical perspective, focused primarily on the body and muscles used to complete a specific task.
However, the brain is just like any other biological tissue; it can be overused and can suffer from fatigue.
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The Huffington Post
We're seeing new resources in the workplace when it comes to First Aid. Next to the metal box with a red cross are defibrillators to treat heart attacks and workplace classes to instruct employees on how to use the devices properly. But there's a gap in mental health and substance use that is ignored and simply seems too complex. Not anymore. That's where Mental Health First Aid comes in.
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Psych Central
Being a perfectionist may lead you to unwittingly sabotage success at work, school or in sports, leading to stress, burnout and health problems, according to new research.
In a meta-analysis of the relationship between perfectionism and burnout, researchers at York St. John University in England analyzed the findings from 43 previous studies conducted over the past 20 years.
What they found is that perfectionism isn't all bad.
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Medical Daily
Heroin is a drug with an especially high potential for addiction, a symptom of which is severe cravings. The stress hormone cortisol may have a diminishing effect on these cravings, according to a new study. Published in Translational Psychiatry, the research builds on previous work that focused on cortisol's ability to diminish addiction memories — in other words, taking cortisol made the brain forget it was addicted.
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Workplace Savings and Benefits
Depression has become a growing concern for employees with redundancy fears proving a significant cause.
According to data from Canada Life, one in five calls (21 percent) in the first half of 2015 to its employee assistance program were about mental health. Depression was the fastest growing mental health concern (up 40 percent over the last year), accounting for almost a third (31 percent) of mental health related calls — redundancy fears being a major factor in that rise.
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News-Medical.net
Abstinence is the best way to avoid drug addiction. But in many societies, drug use is the norm, not the exception, especially by youth. What keeps the majority of users from becoming addicted? How drugs are taken has something to do with it, according to pharmacology researchers at the University of Montreal. "Why do some drug users become addicts? The amount of drugs they take over time is one factor, but the speed with which the substance enters and exits the brain can be just as important," explained Professor Anne-Noël Samaha, who supervised the study into how pharmacokinetic factors govern addiction.
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