ConclusionsThe income disparity in mortality among working‐age Finns increasingly originates from alcohol‐related causes of death. Roughly half of the excess mortality in the lowest income quintile during 2007–12 is explained by the covariates of household income, education, social class, and economic activity. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. (Source: Addiction)M
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“Mental health could be the Civil Rights Movement of the next decade,” said Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church. When it comes to mental health in the United States, our system is broken. Nearly 40,000 Americans lose their lives to suicide each year, which is almost twice as many deaths caused by homicide. Fifty percent of health care issues arise before age 14, and 75% begin by age 24. About
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According to the latest reports, Lamar Odom, the former NBA player who was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel on Oct. 13, is breathing on his own and can even get out of bed. Authorities confirmed that cocaine was found in Odom’s system, which indicates that he had been using it in the days before his hospitalization. Now that he’s improving, it’s time to talk about how we
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When Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is in the news, it is mostly because of the number of veterans suffering as a result of combat-related trauma. Victims of other kinds of trauma can also suffer from PTSD, though, and often do without realizing it. PTSD mirrors other mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and can also present as, “I feel fine,” when really the “feeling fine” rooted in n
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This issue of ARCR, Alcohol and the Immune System,reviews a broad range of immune-relevant alcohol research, detailing how alcohol-induced disruption of immune pathways can impair the body’s ability to defend against infection, contribute to organ damage associated with alcohol consumption, impede recovery from tissue injury, and potentially contribute to alcohol use disorder among other issues
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