People today are often depressed, and see depression as being a medical condition that must be treated with drugs or therapy so as to recreate feelings of optimism and happiness.
Depression tends to make people inward lookng, focused on their gloom, a condition that they want to “snap out of” and get back to normal living.
Depressed people often have an idea of what is making them depressed –...
People who have an addiction to opiates such as heroin or oxycodone may be offered methadone on a drug maintenance program – are methadone programs worth the risk?
In 2006, opioid drugs accounted for over one half of all drug poisoning deaths.
The number of drug poisoning deaths involving methadone increased almost seven fold between 1999 and 2006 – an increase in reported deaths from 790 to 5,420,...
Alcohol is a drug, that is widely used in moderate amounts due to its antidepressant effects. It is easy for teens to obtain alcohol, even when underage, particularly if in a peer group and a community that approves of and encourages regular alcohol drinking, and where there is alcohol use in the home.
Parents today face a challenge because alcohol has long been regarded as a harmless social tool, that has had...
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) has drafted a proposed new constitution intended to give physicians the opportunity to use and include alternative healthcare practices, based on holistic principles, in the practice of managed healthcare.
During the past several months, over 700 submissions were received about the original draft, the consensus view of most medical professionals being that it...
The US National Institute of Mental Health Investigators has recently found in a study that children with bipolar and related severe mood dis regulation spend more time looking at the nose and mouth than the eyes when trying to identify the mood, such as angry or sad, of faces that were shown to them.
Children without diagnosed psychiatric disorder generally focus their attention on the eyes when trying to...
