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Teenagers in adult prisons demonstrate high suicide rate
Published On: 08-14-2015 in Category: Depression, Mental Health, Prison, Suicide, Teens
Teenagers in adult prisons face several challenges most children do not have to endure. Some may live in a “sink or swim” environment that eventually pushes them to the breaking point. According to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, teenagers in adult prisons are twice as likely to commit suicide when compared to imprisoned […]
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Older heroin users are 27 times more likely to be homicide victims
Published On: 08-13-2015 in Category: addiction, Drug Abuse, Heroin, Opioids
Research collected from one the largest surveys of opioid users found that older opioid users have an alarmingly higher chance of being victims of homicide than the general population. This study was led by Dr. Tim Millar from the University of Manchester’s Center for Mental Health and was published in January of 2015 in the […]
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Patients with alcohol addiction at significantly higher risk of death
Published On: 07-22-2015 in Category: addiction
A study recently published in the journal European Psychiatry found that patients suffering through alcoholism possessed a significantly higher risk for mortality than that of patients without an alcohol addiction problem. They also found that on average, patients with alcohol addiction died about 7.6 years earlier than those without a history of alcoholism. Dr. Dieter […]