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Counselor has been serving addiction, behavioral health care and mental health professionals for over forty years. The mission always has been the same: to provide useful and informative content that is relevant to the daily practices of our readers. Counselor continues to stay on the cutting edge of what its readers demand. Reader survey cards ensure that Counselor includes topics in that are important to readers.
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Counselor is the only publication in the addiction field that is based on paid subscriptions. Circulation is distributed fairly evenly throughout the U.S. — West 30%, Central 30%, Northeast 23%, Southeast 13% — and 4% of its circulation is international. Counselor is also distributed at several training conferences, trade shows and other events throughout the year.
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Holiday sanity and sobriety: Tips for recovering addicts
Counselor Magazine
The holiday season is supposed to be overflowing with joy. Most people, however, find themselves dealing with stress and anxiety more than any of the happier emotions. For recovering addicts in particular, the holidays can be a difficult time of year, as all of the extra emotional discomfort can and often does trigger a desire to "escape" and "not feel."
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Advances in family treatment
Counselor Magazine
When we talk about advances in treatment, what are we calling "advances," and who are the intended beneficiaries? Are we remembering the long-time, but still present fear, confusion and panic that daily controls the lives of addicted people's loved ones, including the youngest children?
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General risk of substance use disorders
National Institute on Drug Abuse
The stresses of deployments and the unique culture of the military offer both risks and protective factors related to substance use among active duty personnel. Deployment is associated with smoking initiation, unhealthy drinking, drug use and risky behaviors.
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The impact of mental health training in the workplace
Medical News Today
A new study has found that managers with access to mental health training in their workplaces have an improved understanding of mental health overall and that they actively work to help prevent mental health issues in the people they manage.
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Stressed to the max? Deep sleep can rewire the anxious brain
Science Daily
Researchers have found that the type of sleep most apt to calm and reset the anxious brain is deep sleep, also known as non-rapid eye movement slow-wave sleep, a state in which neural oscillations become highly synchronized, and heart rates and blood pressure drop.
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Depression highly prevalent in 1st-episode schizophrenia
Psychiatry Advisor
According to the results of a meta-analysis published in Psychological Medicine, a significant portion of individuals with first-episode schizophrenia will also experience a full-threshold depressive disorder.
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After a breakup: Putting yourself back together
Psychology Today
It might seem like a no-brainer to understand why the end of a loving connection with someone, especially someone you thought you might spend the rest of your life with, is not only stressful, but also painful.
However, there's something that we don't always think about in connection with a breakup: The end of an intimate relationship can also damage the way that you think about yourself.
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Brain implants used to fight drug addiction in US
BBC News
Patients with severe opioid addiction are being given brain implants to help reduce their cravings, in the first trial of its kind in the U.S. Lead doctor Ali Rezai described the device as a "pacemaker for the brain."
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Exercise can help prevent depression
WebMD
Getting more exercise could help ward off depression, even if you have a genetic risk for it, new research shows.
For the study, researchers analyzed data from nearly 8,000 people and found that those with a genetic predisposition were more likely to be diagnosed with depression over the next two years.
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Let's make sure vets have the mental health services they need
Fox News
In the military, you were taught to take action. No one ever taught you to sit around. For veterans, the same mindset must be applied to mental health. According to a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, there is "a substantial unmet need for mental health services" among veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Social media isn't actually creating anxiety or depression in teens
Forbes
A study by the West Virginia Education Association found that American teenagers spend nine hours each day engaged with a mobile device, including using social media, watching videos, listening to music and playing games. As a result to this amount of time spent on devices, there are concerns that many teens are "addicted" to their respective devices.
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