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Oct. 21, 2020

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Helping adolescents connect to specialty addiction and mental health treatment

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Alcohol and other drug use can negatively affect adolescents physical and mental health. It is associated with the major causes of mortality and morbidity in this age group, and can seriously disrupt healthy development.

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‘This is a moment in history when suicide prevention must be prioritized as a serious public-health concern’

Market Watch

A pandemic-era rise in the suicide rate is not “inevitable,” argues a new journal article that offers strategies for leaders in policy, business and healthcare to help reduce suicide risk. While evidence from the coronavirus pandemic’s first six months has pointed to “specific effects on suicide risk,” real-time suicide-mortality data isn’t available in most parts of the world, and data surveillance varies widely, wrote Christine Moutier, the chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), in a JAMA Psychiatry article published recently.

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Anxiety, depression increased during pandemic; Why not loneliness?

NPR

When the pandemic hit, mental health professionals predicted lockdowns and social distancing would result in a wave of loneliness. But researchers who study loneliness say that hasn't happened.

Removing cops from behavioral crisis calls: 'We need to change the model'

NPR

In what will be among the largest and boldest urban police reform experiment in decades San Francisco is creating and preparing to deploy teams of professionals from the fire and health departments — not police — to respond to most calls for people in a psychiatric, behavioral or substance abuse crisis.

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Nearly 1 in 3 millennials now suffer from mental health conditions, according to study

Philly Voice

The rates of mental health conditions are on the rise among millennials, and the trend may be bringing down the overall health of the generation, a new study published last week finds. Researchers found that among millennials since 2019, there's been a 12% increase in major depression, a 7% increase in alcohol use disorder and a 5% increase in both tobacco use disorder and substance use disorder.

Demi Lovato has struggled feeling 'isolated' in lockdown

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Demi Lovato's anxiety and depression have "come back in waves" during lockdown. The 'OK Not to Be OK' hitmaker admitted she's found it hard being unable to socialise as much due to the coronavirus pandemic and was left feeling "very isolated", which took its toll on her mental health.

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