Archive for April 2024

Amid the aftermath of heightened xenophobia and racism toward Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health exposed the challenges and resilience of these communities in three publications.

According to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of high schoolers who use marijuana actually fell 30 percent over the past decade. Compliance check data from California, Colorado, Nevada, and other legal marijuana states show that licensed marijuana retailers do not sell products to underage patrons. Also contrary to some critics’ claims, legalization states have not experienced any spike in either psychosis or mental illnesses.

We used survey data drawn from over 53,000 middle-aged adults from the U.S. and 13 European nations from 2002 to 2020…. Our study makes clear that middle-aged Americans today are experiencing more loneliness than their peers in European nations. This coincides with existing evidence that mortality rates are rising for working-age adults in the U.S.

While working her internship at a brand new outpatient mental health and resource navigation program Cook noticed a problem for some of the program’s clients.

In 1976, Tony Inwood was on the cover of Community Care. Forty eight years later, he talks to us again about his experience of care, the advice he would give to social workers today and how he has created a fulfilling life. Above: Tony outside Mersham-le-Hatch, the Robert Adam designed stately home that housed Caldecott when Tony was a resident.

Nonprofit groups like Link Health worked in health centers to sign patients and community members up for discount internet through a national program that is set to run out of funds this spring.

This is the third in a three-part series investigating North Carolina’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities where children with complex behavioral needs are sent for care. Above: A bathroom in a patient room of the UNC Youth Behavioral Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

BASW is campaigning for a more socially just context. We want to reduce poverty and inequality, and challenge austerity policies.

Obesity is now the most common form of malnutrition in most countries, with the rates rising in all categories of men, women, children and adolescents since 1990. Obesity rates in adult men have nearly tripled since 1990, with obesity rates in woman doubling in that time. The rates of obesity in children and adolescents quadrupled in that time frame, as well. As of 2022, nearly 880 million adults and nearly 160 million children were living with obesity.

In a new study as part of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, researchers identified 20 different novel psychoactive substances (NPS) in wastewater treatment plants across Australia (between Feb 22-23) with pentylone detected at every collection site. Other NPS, eutylone and phenibut were also commonly detected.