In recent years, Latinos have migrated from Central America to the United States due to violence, high crime rates, and poverty in their home countries. However, violence and trauma continue along their way to the United ...
Jul 17, 2019
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Treatment with gabapentinoids—a group of drugs used for epilepsy, nerve pain and anxiety disorders—is associated with an increased risk of suicidal behaviour, unintentional overdose, injuries, and road traffic incidents, ...
Jun 12, 2019
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(HealthDay)—After adjustment for family-related factors and gestational age, lower birth weight is associated with a small but significant increased risk for several psychiatric disorders, according to a study published ...
Feb 13, 2019
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Young people who self-harm are three times more likely to commit violent crime than those who do not, according to new research from the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
Jan 4, 2019
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Following another act of fatal violence in Melbourne's CBD last Friday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison dismissed claims the perpetrator, Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, had a mental illness. He said this was a "lame excuse", saying ...
Nov 13, 2018
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A spike in Chicago crime was associated with a relative increase in blood pressure among people who lived in safe neighborhoods, according to preliminary research to be presented in Chicago at the American Heart Association's ...
Nov 5, 2018
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The children of families who fall upon hard times are at significantly greater risk of being involved in violent crime and harming themselves as young adults, according to a major new study.
Oct 10, 2018
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A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) found that alcohol outlets in Baltimore that sell alcohol for off-premise consumption (such as ...
Sep 26, 2018
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After being found not guilty by reason of insanity, it's not typically a crime—rather declining mental health or breaking rules of conditional release like not drinking alcohol—that puts people back in a psychiatric hospital ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Commonly used medications for alcohol and opioid addictions have been shown for the first time to reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour and accidental overdose.
Aug 3, 2018
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