While many people immediately picture young adults when thinking about the current addiction and overdose epidemic, this crisis is affecting all generations. In fact, more than 7 million older Americans struggle with substance use disorders. Opioid use disorder, in particular, has skyrocketed among Medicare beneficiaries, with opioid overdose death rates rising higher among people 65 and older than in any other age group.
Archive for May 2024
Interpersonal Sensitivity as a Mediator of the Effect of Childhood Parenting Quality on Depressive Symptoms
Detecting child sexual abuse in child and adolescent psychiatry: a survey study of healthcare professionals’ assessment practice
The Effectiveness of Dance Interventions on Psychological and Cognitive Health Outcomes Compared with Other Forms of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis
HDPulse: An Ecosystem of Minority Health and Health Disparities Resources
Syphilis Diagnosis After a Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, or HIV Diagnosis Among Reproductive-Aged Women in Baltimore, MD
Charting the Advocacy Landscape: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Syllabi in Public Health Graduate Education
Navigating the Discussion of Mental Illness With Vietnamese Americans
Congress: Close Medicare’s dangerous gaps in coverage for addiction treatment
Need to Take Heart? Talk to Your Psychiatrist for 20 Minutes
A general impossibility theorem on Pareto efficiency and Bayesian incentive compatibility
World Migration Report 2024
Improving patient-centred counselling skills among lay healthcare workers in South Africa using the Thusa-Thuso motivational interviewing training and support program
Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon
More than a decade after her death and 34 years since she left Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher continues to haunt us. After Liz Truss’s cosplay as the Iron Lady, Rishi Sunak has drawn comparisons between “the grocer’s daughter and the pharmacist’s son”. In December last year, Keir Starmer admiringly said that Thatcher “set loose our natural entrepreneurialism”. All this suggests a very British mixture of muddle and masochism: her spirit, it seems, must be summoned so we can be magicked out of our current mess, even if so many of the UK’s crises began with what she did.
Psychotic and Somatic Symptoms Are Frequent in Refugees With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Narrative Review
Sensibility to the Role of Child Welfare Services in the Machinery of Stigma
Evaluation of sustainability reporting of the food industry in Hungary from an EU taxonomy perspective
Clinical Experience on the Use of a Single-day, Two-injection Start Initiation Regimen of Aripiprazole Once Monthly in Patients With Schizophrenia in Spain: SaTISfy Study
The Resurgence of Lymphogranuloma Venereum: Changing Presentation of Lymphogranuloma Venereum in the Era of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis, 2004 to 2022
Extragenital Sexually Transmitted Infections Among High-Risk Men Who Have Sex With Men in Johannesburg, South Africa
A lifetime of mental health treatments for people with schizophrenia: update and narrative review
Video Game Time and Psychosocial Well-being in Chinese Children: the Mediating Role of Self-Esteem
Where Are Your Parents? Exploring Potential Bias in Administrative Records on Children
Social workers board changes urged
Secretary for Labour & Welfare Chris Sun today said the Government has to improve the governance of the Social Workers Registration Board.
Strengthening Evidence: Support for RCTs to Evaluate Social Programs and Policies
How men influence young women taking PrEP: perspectives from young women, male partners, and male peers in Siaya county, Western Kenya
83 social workers appointed in Free State
Queering Family Violence: Introduction to Queer Family Violence Studies
Who are China’s ‘elderly drifters’? Seniors on the move domestically and overseas face language barriers, culture shocks
China’s over-60s make up 7.2 per cent of migrants, about 18 million people. Treated as ‘servants’ by family, stuck indoors with grandchildren, they often feel lonely.
What are Mental Disorders? Exploring the Role of Culture in the Harmful Dysfunction Approach
Wellbeing does not predict change in parenting behaviours among mothers of young children at elevated likelihood of autism
Factors influencing breast cancer screening practices among women worldwide: a systematic review of observational and qualitative studies
Translation and Validation of the COMM and ASI-SR (COMMISS)
“You’re Asking Me to Put into Words Something That I Don’t Put into Words.”: Climate Grief and Older Adult Environmental Activists
Associations Among Online Social Reactions to Disclosure of Sexual Victimization, Coping and Social Isolation
Comparative Analysis of the Functions Work Groups and Informal Subgroups Carry out in Relation to their Members: The Essence, Conditions of Implementation, Effects, and Dysfunctions
Youth Employment: A Foundation for Mental Health and Well-Being
Lessons from the Field: Seeking Support and Sharing Wisdom Among Unaccompanied Guatemalan Migrant Youths in U.S. Agriculture
CfP: International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services
Toward the Cooperative University: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Membership in the AAUP
Cautions and limitations of emergent pedagogies in leadership development
Everyday Eating Food, Taste and Trends in Britain since the 1950s
The number of religious ‘nones’ has soared, but not the number of atheists – and as social scientists, we wanted to know why
Life Satisfaction and the Relationship Experience at Family, School, and Neighborhood Levels for Chilean Children
Community ordinances are clashing with Michigan’s drug harm reduction strategy
A fentanyl test strip helps users test for the presence of fentanyl in their drugs. Harm reduction kits show the thoughtfulness in helping addicts reduce the risk of infection and even death.
Evaluation of Siblings’ Perceived Relationship Outcomes with Their Parents in an Open Trial of the SIBS Intervention for Children with Chronic Disorders
Indigenous advocates work to combat fake sober living homes in Arizona
StolenBenefitsStolenPeoples volunteers Raquel Shaye and Reva Stewart drag a wagon filled with bottled water and other supplies to start handing out at a bus stop on 19th Avenue and Dunlap in Phoenix during an outreach effort