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Harvard Business Review
Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. The U.S. Army has accrued valuable experience in this area over the last decade through the design and implementation of its behavioral health system of care, its term for all of the mental health and substance-use clinical care it provides. Accounting systems now uniformly capture administrative data across a huge, geographically dispersed system. Workload standards allow clinicians the time to engage with the key people who affect recovery, such as commanders and family members.
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U.S. Food & Drug Adminstration
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted marketing of the first mobile medical application to help treat substance use disorders (SUD). The Reset application is intended to be used with outpatient therapy to treat alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and stimulant SUDs. The application is not intended to be used to treat opioid dependence.
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Medical News Today
The largest twin study of schizophrenia to date reinforces the role of genetics in determining risk, suggesting that 79 percent of the likelihood to develop the condition is due to heritability.
The National Institutes of Health define schizophrenia as a "chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder" that affects 1.1 percent of all adults in the United States.
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The National
More companies are offering mental health support services for employees, including confidential phone lines, as awareness and recognition of the problem grows in the UAE. As the world marked World Mental Health Day this week, doctors said there is an increasing need for such services. Stress, overwork and the isolation of being an expatriate abroad are among common causes. One company, which provides mental health services to more than 40 companies in the country, said the concept was still very new to the Middle East but is needed.
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Science Alert
More than 5,000 Americans are about to get a check in the mail, after regulators discovered that a Florida-based supplement maker was peddling an herbal drink mix that it claimed could help treat addiction. The company, Sunrise Nutraceuticals, marketed its Elimidrol powdered drink mix as having a "high success rate … in overcoming opiate withdrawal" and said it could help people "leave addiction behind permanently," according to a statement from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Economic Times
The mail was short but spoke volumes. "I have an issue: I’m 13 I have depression and I tried to commit suicide you are helping me hold on to myself thanks for everything." The recipients of the grateful email were the creators of Wysa, a mental health chatbot, launched by Jo Aggarwal and her husband, Ramakant Vempati, in January this year.
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Financial stress can have a serious impact on your employees’ performance, and has been reported to cost businesses an average of $7,000 per employee annually in lost productivity. Cambridge Credit Counseling is a nonprofit agency offering solutions to help your employees eliminate debt and alleviate the stress that debt causes.
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The Fix
The news of the brain’s connection to addiction is already helping local lawmakers better understand the need to attack the situation like they would a diabetes or leukemia epidemic. he opioid epidemic has been plaguing the US for quite some time, forcing the CDC to issue several reports and national announcements on the topic. Despite the abundance of information on opioid addiction and its health implications, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently declared a “War on Drugs,” specifically aimed at opioids.
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Forbes
According to a study by Bensinger, Dupont & Associates, one in five millennials report experiencing depression, as compared to 16 percent of older employees.
Let that sink in for a second. One in five. Look around the conference room during a meeting or down your millennial-inspired open concept floor plan. There are plenty of employees around you that are silently facing the private and public struggle that comes with mental illness.
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Today
A recent WHO-led study was highlighted to show that mental health conditions, like depression and anxiety disorders, cost the global economy about USD1 trillion each year due to lost productivity. Zooming into measures to tackle “mental health in the workplace” — establishing a more supportive working environment — Singapore has recently announced an apprenticeship scheme, to be implemented by early 2018.
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