How One Police Chief Is Changing the Conversation Around Addiction A 30-year law enforcement veteran from Newtown, Ohio, Police Chief Tom Synan has stepped up and launched the Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition, a partnership between law enforcement and behavioral health programs. The coalition’s goal is to shift the addiction response off of law enforcement…
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Digital Currency and Fentanyl, New Elements of 21st-Century Drug Trafficking “Two Dutch nationals, an Englishman, and nine companies have been targeted for sanctions by the U.S. government for allegedly operating an illegal fentanyl ring that generated millions of dollars in virtual currency.” That is the opening line from an A.P. News report outlining the growing…
Children’s Mental Health Is Suffering In recent years, mental health has been a growing area of discussion; the beginnings of a global acceptance to what has previously been overlooked or pushed aside. Of particular concern, especially in America, is the state of children’s mental health. While COVID-19 turned the world as we knew it upside…
Study Finds Alarming Surge in Negative Alcohol Experiences During College While it is no mystery that drinking alcohol during one’s young adult and college years carries harm, it isn’t always understood the extent of that harm, the frequency of it, and the long-term unwanted effects that result from it. A recent study that followed 1,700…
Research Suggests a Link Between Pandemic Drinking and Alcohol-Related Deaths A unique drug, alcohol is known to be an unhealthy substance that carries both short-term and long-term harm, yet the substance is socially accepted and normalized within American society. New research shows how alcohol-related deaths spiked 26% during the pandemic. In the same year, overall…
The Challenge Of Honesty Whether people are being dishonest about whether they have been exercising, eating healthy, or taking their medications as prescribed, many are not honest with the professionals that they have put their trust in to provide health care. Disclosing drug or alcohol abuse is no different, and if anything, it adds an…
Alcohol Is the Cause of One in Five Young Adult Deaths An alarming new study shows that not only do more Americans lose their lives from alcohol-related causes each year than drug-related causes, but an increasing number of those who die are young-to-middle-aged adults. These findings suggest that the American people need to start viewing…
