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Increases in opioid overdoses in Pennsylvania varied by county during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Conversation | K Srakocic/AP
The Conversation | K Srakocic/AP

Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in Pennsylvania, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2010 to 2019, rates of opioid-related deaths in Pennsylvania almost quintupled, rising from 5 per 100,000 people to 23.7 per 100,000 people. In 2020, it rose to 42.4 per 100,000 people.

Posted in: News on 03/22/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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As Psychiatric Beds are Brought Back into Service Slowly, Officials Point to Workforce Shortage

GothamGazette | KP Coughlin/Governor's Office
GothamGazette | KP Coughlin/Governor's Office

Hospital administrators and state regulators say a severe workforce shortage has stymied efforts to restore a majority of the 1,050 inpatient psychiatric beds removed across the state during the height of the pandemic in 2020. Above: Gov. Hochul visits a hospital

Posted in: News on 03/22/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Drug Decriminalization Saves Lives. Why Aren’t We Doing It?

In These Times
In These Times

Respect instead of policing? That doesn’t sound like America.

Of the more than 100 safe consumption sites worldwide, most are in Canada, Australia and Europe. Only two are in the United States, both in New York, though several states and local jurisdictions have considered opening their own. But the sites are illegal at the federal level and many politicians apparently think safe sites somehow promote drug use.

Posted in: News on 03/22/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Slough social services organisation rated ‘requires improvement’ after two-week Ofsted inspection

BerkshireLive | Google
BerkshireLive | Google

Slough Children First, which is owned by Slough Borough Council, provides social care and support to children, young people and families in the Slough area. It had previously been inspected in 2019 at which time it also received a ‘requires improvement’ rating.

Posted in: News on 03/22/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tower Hamlets flat fire shows how poorest people die

Socialist Worker
Socialist Worker

The true cost of Britain’s unregulated and profit-led housing market was exposed after a blaze killed a man in a tiny flat where 18 people were crammed…. The fire was the deadly consequence of a housing market where predatory landlords prey on the poorest and most vulnerable, and councils who mostly stand on the side of the bosses.

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Washington may boost 988 hotline funding as demand grows

The Columbian | Everyday Health/Getty/Stocksy
The Columbian | Everyday Health/Getty/Stocksy

An expanded budget for the new suicide and mental health crisis line would support rapid-response teams and marketing efforts.

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Mental Health Care by Video Fills Gaps in Rural Nursing Homes

KHN | T Leys
KHN | T Leys

Before visiting with patients in their rooms, psychiatric nurse practitioner Ayesha Macon, on video screen, consults with Shaina Flesher (right), a certified nursing assistant at the Accura HealthCare nursing home in Knoxville, Iowa. The two discuss how residents of the nursing home have been faring and what medications they’ve been taking.

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Boise junior high social worker’s ‘inappropriate’ conduct with student was kept secret. How?

Idaho Capital Sun | A Dutton
Idaho Capital Sun | A Dutton

Social worker may have abused a student, principal is charged with not reporting it, and Boise school district hasn’t told parents

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Emily Flinkstrom, Women of the Year honoree from Maine, dedicates life to serving homeless

Portsmouth Herald/yahoo!
Portsmouth Herald/yahoo!

After college Flinkstrom joined the AmeriCorps Vista program, working in Salt Lake City with developmentally and intellectually disabled people. The experience inspired her to pursue a master’s degree in social work from Colorado State University, where, in the midst of her studies, she worked at a homeless resource center.

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Once-homeless Mainers ‘get to dream again’ at this model program

BDN | TR Bennett
BDN | TR Bennett

Huston Commons opened in 2017 as the third “Housing First” program in Portland. The model provides permanent housing to those who lack it without preconditions such as sobriety. It has 24-hour support services for people with mental health and substance use disorders.

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The closing of China will affect universities worldwide

UWN | ModernMapArt
UWN | ModernMapArt

Of course, the most important implications of a ‘closing’ of Chinese higher education will be for Chinese universities. It will be more difficult for the top institutions to achieve true ‘world-class’ status if their academic culture is infused with restrictions, problematic access to knowledge and constraints on the emergence of a truly free and innovative academic culture.

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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On the coming of age

red pepper | J Corbyn/Wikimedia
red pepper | J Corbyn/Wikimedia

Jeremy Corbyn meeting with Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) campaigners. WASPI seeks to redress disparities in the state pension age for women born in the 1950s, who currently have to wait six years longer than their male peers

Posted in: News on 03/21/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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The Art of Healing

Oldster | V Kirpal
Oldster | V Kirpal

Stumbling upon some paintings she made 16 years ago while being treated for cancer, Viney Kirpal is reminded of the meditative power of art-making, and its ability to help us get through trauma.

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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China seeks to tighten grip with new social work department

SCMP | Reuters
SCMP | Reuters

The new department is seen as a move to strengthen control over non-public sectors and ensure social stability.

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Self-reflection: Social Work student Samantha Dwornick is leading by example

Today@Wayne
Today@Wayne

Samantha Dwornick (left) has enjoyed making friends with fellow students like Damon Creighton Jr. (middle left) and Kristen Prasiloski (far right) and building relationships with professors like Judith Wineman (middle right).

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Threats, violence and abuse: CUPE report shows unsafe conditions of Saskatchewan’s library workers

Global News | CUPE 1842
Global News | CUPE 1842

Many of these solutions CUPE agreed with, noting that more violence prevention training was needed, union education needed to be expanded and onsite social workers and elders were needed.

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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A Comprehensive Report on Incarceration and Women Outlines the Gender Disparities

ScheerPost | A Chung/WAPO/Getty
ScheerPost | A Chung/WAPO/Getty

The Prison Policy Initiative looks at a fast-growing group in the incarceration system and the challenges they are more likely to face.

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Ridley-Thomas corruption case built on emails: ‘MRT is really trying to deliver here’

LAT | USC
LAT | USC

Jurors in the seventh-floor courtroom have heard detailed testimony of the inner workings of USC’s social work program along with efforts by former dean Marilyn Flynn to curry favor with Ridley-Thomas and maneuver around the university to accomplish her designs. It is a public corruption case built not on wiretaps but emails, largely from Flynn to subordinates or colleagues at the university and Ridley-Thomas himself. Above: Marilyn Flynn

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Academic freedom in decline in 22 countries worldwide

UWN | Adobe
UWN | Adobe

According to Dr Katrin Kinzelbach, one of AFI’s two principal investigators, the “findings are alarming: From autocracies like China, and increasingly authoritarian countries like India, to fully-fledged democracies like Britain and the United States, we found measurable decreases in academic freedom. In the UK, for example, we found declines in ‘campus integrity’, the extent to which campuses are free from politically motivated surveillance, and academics’ freedom of expression on political issues”.

Posted in: News on 03/20/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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UN Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the role of technology and innovation, and education in the digital age in accelerating gender equality

UN WOMEN | ACCORD
UN WOMEN | ACCORD

The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women — the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights—successfully closed its two-week long session (6 to 17 March) with the acknowledgment of the critical role of technology and innovation in achieving gender equality.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Children’s services in Rochdale still ‘require improvement’ as watchdog finds council has failed to make ‘sufficient progress’

Manchester Evening News | FE Week
Manchester Evening News | FE Week

Ofsted says senior leaders ‘have considerably more to do before services and outcomes for children are consistently good’.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Employers Can Dock Paid Time Off If Workers Don’t Meet Quotas, U.S. Court Rules

Gizmodo/yahoo!news | Bayada
Gizmodo/yahoo!news | Bayada

Per the suit, Bayada uses a system of “productivity points” to set its salaried employee pay scale. Salaried employees include registered nurses, physical therapists, and medical social workers among others. And at each salary grade, these employees are expected to accrue a certain weekly amount of points. Points correlate to tasks, with one point equal to an estimated 1.33 hours of work. If a Bayada employee fails to meet their productivity point quota, the difference between completed and expected work is subtracted from their banked paid time off, the plaintiffs claimed.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Commentary: Maine’s social workers deserve more of our support

Kennebec Journal | NASW Maine
Kennebec Journal | NASW Maine

NASW Maine wishes to acknowledge the licensed social workers in Augusta who are tirelessly advocating on behalf of our state’s most vulnerable populations and on issues of health equity, behavioral health access, student-debt relief, workforce development and other issues of vital importance to our state. We also want to express our gratitude for those social workers across our state who are volunteering their time in other local elected roles, such as town councils and school boards, as well as those serving on different boards of directors at nonprofits all over Maine.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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5 state plans to restrict faculty tenure you’ll want to watch

Higher Ed Dive | M Zhuravlev/Getty
Higher Ed Dive | M Zhuravlev/Getty

We we outline five state anti-tenure proposals. Some plans have progressed into legislation, but the details of others have yet to emerge.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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What Survivors of Trauma Demand From Their Abusers—and the Public At Large

Literary Hub
Literary Hub

The first precept of survivors’ justice is the desire for community acknowledgment that a wrong has been done. This makes intuitive sense. If secrecy and denial are the tyrant’s first line of defense, then public truth telling must be the first act of a survivor’s resistance, and recognizing the survivor’s claim to justice must be the moral community’s first act of solidarity.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image

Jacobin | A Iversen Orlich
Jacobin | A Iversen Orlich

Protesters demonstrate for Sámi rights in Oslo, Norway, March 3, 2023.

Posted in: News on 03/19/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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BASW urges social workers not to take jobs with Home Office age assessment body

CommunityCare | BASW
CommunityCare | BASW

Ruth Allen (above), the BASW chief executive, said taking a job with the Home Office’s National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) was a “risk to professional objectivity and could compromise the judgment of social workers”, in the light of government rhetoric about adult asylum seekers exploiting the system by claiming to be children.

Posted in: News on 03/18/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal

Psyche | unidentified artist/The Met Museum
Psyche | unidentified artist/The Met Museum

An emphasis on the individual can lead us to neglect communal approaches to treatment. Often overlooked are the ways in which social norms, cultural beliefs and communal attitudes contribute to mental illness. Ancient Chinese scholars understood this well.

Posted in: News on 03/18/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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University of Northern Iowa professor leaves $1.1 million legacy gift for scholarships

The Courier
The Courier

A $1.1 million legacy gift from Dr. James McCullagh will provide financial support for students pursuing a social work major at the University of Northern Iowa. McCullagh taught with UNI’s department of social work for 40 years and retired in 2021. He died in April 2022 at age 85.

Posted in: News on 03/18/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Deaths soar as population drops from pre-pandemic highs, medical needs neglected amid staffing collapse

Pittsburgh City Paper | L Chen/J Wickerham
Pittsburgh City Paper | L Chen/J Wickerham

According to the Allegheny County jail’s legally mandated solitary confinement reports, excluding two days in January 2022, the jail was in lockdown, when incarcerated people often spend 23 hours per day in their cells. The months before, during, and after Thomas’s death, it was the same. Including January, the jail was on lockdown for eight months in 2022.

Posted in: News on 03/18/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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César E. Chávez social justice gathering commemorates 96th birthday of late civil rights leader

MLive | D Travis
MLive | D Travis

A likeness of Cesar E. Chavez during the Cesar E. Chavez Social Justice march on Thursday, March 16, 2023.

Posted in: News on 03/18/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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NAMA Center holds discussion on youth and social work

Gulf Times
Gulf Times

The participants presented the mechanism and results of a study on Youth and Social Work in the State of Qatar

Posted in: News on 03/18/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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“A wake-up call”: Chief Inspector raises serious concerns about effectiveness of probation work with released prisoners

HM Inspectorate of Probation
HM Inspectorate of Probation

In a familiar story, reflective of our recent regional inspections and independent Serious Further Offence reviews, work to reduce the risk those released from prison pose to others fell well short of expectations.

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Opinion | How it feels to be hungry and why food should be a basic right

AlterNet | rawf8/Shutterstock
AlterNet | rawf8/Shutterstock

Let me just offer one other bit of context for the congressional canceling of those extra SNAP benefits. Late last year, as the pandemic was “ending” and Congress was planning to cut those benefits, it noticed another truly needy place to put our taxpayer dollars. In fact, Congress found that institution so desperately needy that the representatives of the people offered $45 billion more than it even requested for 2023. And yes, I’m thinking about the Pentagon (as well, of course, as the military-industrial-congressional complex it’s part of).

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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AI child-welfare tool causes toddler to get taken from family

News19 | aisp.upenn.edu
News19 | aisp.upenn.edu

More than a year later, their daughter, now 2, remains in foster care. The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. They wonder if an artificial intelligence tool that the Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses to predict which children could be at risk of harm singled them out because of their disabilities.

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Colorado lawmakers advance bill to prevent police from lying to minors during interrogations

colorado politics | Fox 31 Denver
colorado politics | Fox 31 Denver

Lorenzo Montoya, 14, during a taped interrogation by the Denver Police Department in 2000. During the interrogation, Montoya falsely confessed to a murder and was later sentenced to life in prison. He was exonerated on DNA evidence after serving more than 13 years.

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Book-banning’ measure nears final passage in Kentucky General Assembly

WKU | Houzz
WKU | Houzz

Those testifying in support of the measure, like Jerry Gearding of the conservative Campbell County group Moms for Liberty, said the bill is needed to shield children from the sexual content in books like “Gender Queer.” This group for liberty wants to deny the liberty of others?

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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This isn’t the first time conservatives have banned cross-dressing in America

Jacobin | B Bell/Getty
Jacobin | B Bell/Getty

“During the nineteenth century, anti-cross-dressing laws operated as flexible tools for policing a wide range of gender transgressions.” Above: Drag Queen Brigitte Bandit laughs with supporters during a story-time reading at the Cheer Up Charlies dive bar in Austin, Texas.

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Depression too often gets deemed ‘hard to treat’ when medication falls short

The Conversation | M Korneeva/Moment/Getty
The Conversation | M Korneeva/Moment/Getty

We see patients who feel demoralized by the implied and untrue notion that their depression is “incurable” after only trying medication but not lower-risk treatments like psychotherapy and other effective alternatives.

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work

Social Europe | MNBB Studio/Shutterstock
Social Europe | MNBB Studio/Shutterstock

Gender segregation in sectors, occupations and roles still sees women persistently losing out.

Posted in: News on 03/17/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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BASW UK Responds to Spring Budget

BASW
BASW

Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt MP delivered the UK Government’s Spring Budget to the House of Commons, outlining his plans for spending and taxation.

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Los Angeles Sheriff’s Second-In-Command Has Alleged Gang Tattoo

ScheerPost | Dannyi2yu/Getty
ScheerPost | Dannyi2yu/Getty

Los Angeles County Undersheriff April Tardy, the Sheriff’s Department’s second-highest-ranking official, said she has a tattoo on her ankle that signifies her dedication to a station she was assigned to early in her career. But several current department sources say the tattoo signifies membership in the V Boys, a deputy gang.

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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People Have a Right to Nonreligious Rehab

NYT | S Lavalette
NYT | S Lavalette

Today, around two-thirds of American addiction treatment programs for alcohol and other drug disorders, including over 90 percent of residential treatment centers surveyed, use the 12 steps originated by Alcoholics Anonymous, often telling patients that this is the only way to recover. These 12 steps — common to other “anonymous” groups, like Narcotics Anonymous — are based on Christian principles. A.A.’s founders were members of an early-20th-century revival movement known as the Oxford Group, and they adopted the steps from its doctrine.

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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‘Not paid what we’re worth’: NC social workers say they are essential, but undervalued

ABC11/WTVD
ABC11/WTVD

If it wasn’t for the love Vicki Britton has for the children she serves every day, the school social worker would have left a long time ago.

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

STAT | M Reddy
STAT | M Reddy

Health insurance companies have rejected medical claims for as long as they’ve been around. But a STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is now driving their denials to new heights in Medicare Advantage, the taxpayer-funded alternative to traditional Medicare that covers more than 31 million people.

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Health + Hospitals advances new strategy to house homeless patients

Politico | ID NYC
Politico | ID NYC

NYC Health + Hospitals plans to hire an outside organization to help its homeless patients find housing, a $14 million investment that officials said would improve health outcomes and slash costly emergency room visits.

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Thousands with learning disabilities trapped in hospital, some for years

The Guardian | IKON
The Guardian | IKON

The report from the University of Birmingham and rights-based organisation Changing Our Lives has been released in conjunction with an exhibition from the subversive street artist Foka Wolf titled Why are we stuck in hospital?

Posted in: News on 03/16/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Tusla seeking social workers in Roscommon

Roscommon Herald | Tusla
Roscommon Herald | Tusla

“Working in Tusla offers structured opportunities for both personal growth and career development. We have a range of roles available so if you’re considering a career change or a new challenge now is the time to apply.”

Posted in: News on 03/15/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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Housing & Development Board (HDB) piloting Joint Singles Scheme Operator-Run model to improve rental housing schemes for singles

TOC
TOC

The Single Room Shared Facility Scheme will enable tenants to have their own room while sharing facilities such as the bathroom, kitchen, and other common spaces. The new scheme is a pilot project, and the 480 single rooms will be sited at the former Anderson Junior College hostel in Ang Mo Kio.

Posted in: News on 03/15/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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People With A.D.H.D. Claim Adderall Is ‘Different’ Now. What’s Going On?

NYT | J Kane/AP
NYT | J Kane/AP

For nearly half a year, many people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have struggled to obtain their medication amid a nationwide shortage. The F.D.A. first announced the shortage in October, and Adderall is still in short supply. Among the patients who do manage to find Adderall, health care providers are left fielding their questions, though some say the concerns aren’t new. Danielle Stutzman, a psychiatric pharmacist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, estimates that up to a quarter of her patients over the past few years have said their medication seems less effective, a trend she said began around the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Posted in: News on 03/15/2023 | Link to this post on IFP |
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