Archive for December 2024

Fluoridated water has been extensively studied, and its benefits are well documented. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, water fluoridation reduces cavities by about 25% across all age groups. It’s a public health measure that works passively – every sip of water helps protect your teeth, without requiring you to change your behavior. This is especially important for vulnerable populations. Above: ‘Stop Fluoridation’ banners hang from an overpass in Dallas.

History “may cause them to not see the investment in a public school education as a good use of their time,” said Dallas Pettigrew, director of Oklahoma University’s Center for Tribal Social Work and a member of the Cherokee Nation.

The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) may be the most widely anticipated way Social Security changes from year to year, but it’s far from the only one. Inflation, wage trends and new policies directly affect not just the more than 68 million people receiving Social Security benefits but also the estimated 184 million workers (and future beneficiaries) paying into the system. 

Fewer psychologists and social workers in Connecticut accept patients covered by Medicaid compared to neighboring New England states…. Latest OHS data showed that more than 1.5 million people in Connecticut lived in places with mental health workforce shortages. That shortage comes as one in five adults statewide has experienced a mental health disorder.

The first study to definitively show a link between cannabis use and schizophrenia was conducted in 1987 and examined 45,000 Swedish soldiers. They found that those soldiers with high cannabis use (more than 50 uses) had a sixfold greater chance of developing schizophrenia over 15 years.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has issued a serious warning about the state of the nation’s mental health system, claiming it’s failing those who need it the most.

The Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any medications for treating stimulant use disorder. What does the evidence say?

To express solidarity with the “Zehar se Mukti” campaign, many social workers on Tuesday staged a dharna outside Nehru Park in Abohar. They condemned those factories which regularly discharged chemical laden water into Buddha drain of Ludhiana.

Dozhier is one of a growing number of students from UM’s social work, school counseling and mental health counseling programs who have delivered such services for K-12 children in Montana’s far-flung rural districts. What began as an experimental effort to address the mental health side of school safety has, over the past five years, evolved into a fixture both for the university’s Safe Schools Center and for the small schools it serves. Dubbed VAST — short for Virtually Assisted School Teams — the program now boasts six grad students and 22 participating districts stretching from the Bitterroot Valley to the North Dakota border.

I had heard rumors about men having sex in Mexico City’s subway system. But nothing prepared me for what I witnessed on my first ride in the último vagón.