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One Woman's Experience with Moderation Drinking

posted on 4/2/2015 1:52:00 PM

Here's an article from Oprah's magazine about a woman who grew up with an alcoholic father, and eventually found herself not happy with her relationship with alcohol. She started working Moderation Management's program. Here's the link to Moderation Management's home page.

Talking Back to Your Thoughts, or, You Don't Have to Believe Everything You Think

posted on 3/12/2015 1:54:00 PM

We all have urges to do things that aren't in our best interest long term, whether that is overeating, refusing to eat, self harm, suicide or alcohol/drug use. Learning to recognize urges as urges (which may be very strong and compelling) but not as mandates or musts, takes a bit of work. One skill that can be helpful is called Disarm. It stands for Destructive Self-talk Awareness and Refusal Method. This is a cognitive behavioral technique that asks us to identify the though...

New Study on Youth Suicide-Urban vs Rural

posted on 3/10/2015 1:55:00 PM

JAMA Pediatrics released yesterday an article about youth suicides, comparing urban and rural settings. While Boise isn't considered rural, much of Idaho is. The study found that suicide rates for both males and females were almost double in rural settings, and that the rates of suicide by firearms were disproportionately higher in rural areas. If you know someone who is coping with symptoms of depression, consider having a discussion about how you can reduce risk--keepi...

Positive Parenting Prevents Drug Abuse

posted on 3/2/2015 12:56:00 PM

The National Institute on Drug Abuse has a great resource for families. It's called Family Check UP and addresses the 5 following topics, providing resources for how to talk with your family about each: Communication Encouragement Negotiation Setting Limits SupervisionFrom NIDA's website: "These five questions, developed by the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon, highlight parenting skills that are important in preventing the initiation and progressi...

Teens Watch on YouTube Other Teens Drinking

posted on 2/23/2015 1:02:00 PM

In the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, a study was done of videos on YouTube of teens' drinking behavior. The following is quoted from the abstract: Results: There were a total of 333,246,875 views for all videos combined. While 89% of videos involved males, only 49% involved females. The videos had a median of 1,646 (interquartile range [IQR] 300 to 22,969) “like” designations and 33 (IQR 14 to 1,261) “dislike” designations each...

Cigarette Smoking is Now Linked to More Diseases

posted on 2/16/2015 1:03:00 PM

Last week the New England Journal of Medicine released a report on the risks of smoking. In addition to the diseases long known to be related to smoking, there were many others that showed a link to smoking. Among these were renal failure, hypertensive heart disease, infections, various respiratory diseases, breast and prostate cancers. If you would like help to quit smoking, please talk to your provider, or go to projectfilter.org. Project Filter is Idaho’s Tobac...

More Recovery Apps

posted on 2/11/2015 1:04:00 PM

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation has been providing addiction treatment for over 60 years. They have been very active in training and education, as well as publishing materials to help with recovery. Now, being able to carry around their materials is easier because they have been made into apps, both for Apple and Android. Most of them cost a bit, but one that is free is Inspirations: Daily Meditations for People in Recovery. Here's the link for the Apple page (because I...

Suicide Prevention

posted on 8/25/2014 2:15:00 PM

With the untimely death of Robin Williams, there have been many articles and programs written about suicide of late. They're hard for me to take in. When I was just starting out in mental health in 1990, I went to hear a psychiatrist speak about new brain research on schizophrenia. While perhaps the good doctor was speaking in hyperbole, he said, "The 90s is the decade of the brain! There is every reason to believe we will have a cure for schizophrenia by the year 2000". At th...

Alcohol-Related Deaths in America

posted on 7/3/2014 2:18:00 PM

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released new numbers this past month regarding alcohol effects in America. The study looked at data from years 2006-2010 and looked at alcohol-attributable deaths (AAD), as well as years of life potentially lost (YPLL) due to excessive alcohol use. Here are two quotes from the report: Excessive drinking accounted for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults in the United States. Among working-a...

Violence--Anger May Be the Key

posted on 4/14/2014 10:46:00 AM

As you know there was another shooting at Fort Hood recently. Looking at how it was 'spun' we first see anxiety and depression listed as possible causation, but then the discussion changed to there being an argument which prompted the violence. I thought that was very interesting. The average person doesn't think of anger management problems in the same way they think of a mental illness. And, it seems unfair and inaccurate to assume anyone with a mental illness is potentially d...

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