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This is a well informed article about how to ease depression and anxiety by consistent exercise.

Anxiety, Depression Can Be Eased with 150 Minutes of Exercise a Week Researchers say people can benefit from exercise whether it's outdoors or indoors and whether it's team sports or individual activities.

Daily Ma*****na Use And Highly Potent W**d Linked To Psychosis As more places in the U.S. and Europe legalize ma*****na, w**d consumption is growing ever more popular. But researchers are studying a troubling health risk associated with the drug.

Parents read.

Addicted to Vaped Ni****ne, Teenagers Have No Clear Path to Quitting Parents, schools and public health experts struggle to find effective ways to help young people quit e-cigarettes. “There is no sound science yet.”

Very happy and honored to be a part of OCIACC. Hope to see my friends at the fun party on December 2nd.

Meet our holiday party’s master of ceremony! Samar Tehrani is the founder of Helix Counseling and Life Coaching Services; she is a Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor and a Life Coach with over 20 years of experience in the field of human services. Her career extends from Colorado, Virginia/DC areas, to Tehran, and now Irvine, California.
Samar has been an Ociacc board since early 2018 and will be continuing to make contributions as a board member in 2019.
https://www.helixccs.com/who-we-are.html
“As a small business owner, new to OC, I have created a wonderful network of professionals and I owe this opportunity to being an OCIACC member and later serving as a Board member.” Samar Tehrani

I found this article very hopeful. I have often taught about the importance of alternative therapies when it comes down to treatment of addiction. Moving away from "punitive" "stigmatic" treatment to more holistic treatment where neurologically healing takes place. Dr. Lori Baudino I like to meet you and talk to you about the possibilities.

Dr. Lori Baudino Brings Dance/Movement Therapy To The World Stage At a time when headlines are alerting us to the overmedication of children in the U.S. and scientific research is unveiling proven benefits of alternativ...

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Mental Health
Substance Use Disorder
Let's talk about Stigma

Take a step on
"World Mental Health Day" change your attitudes in order to reduce Stigma.

This is a perfect example of stigma around this disease. If you listen to the voices in this video, you will hear young people... we are so far from truly understanding the depth of this disease.
My heart goes out to his family and those who loved him.

Deputies Made Jokes About a Veteran Thrashing in His Cell Before He Died Bryan Perry, an Iraq War veteran, was in jail suffering from an apparent drug overdose in 2016. In a cellphone video, deputies can be heard laughing at him.

A good share.

Bipolar Disorder Medical Medium Blog: read Bipolar Disorder now at www.medicalmedium.com

Yesterday marked the 10 year anniversary of Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. For those not familiar, this is the Act which requires insurance companies to cover Illnesses of the brain... psychological illnesses, disorders. What this has done for the field of mental health is that it opened the doors for masses to have access to treatment.
I have to say, as far as policy, awareness, or space where mental health treatment is available, we are far from where it is fair or it is available to masses. As a professional in the field, I have felt a personal responsibility to encourage us who specifically deal with substance illnesses, addressing Substance Use, or Abuse disorder is to work on eliminating the stigma and shame. To address treatment from a lens of a illness and turn the look on treatment from one of punitive to addressing the issues from the lens of medical model treatment.

Enjoyed reading her story.

This author also works as a janitor. She just won a prestigious literary prize from the university she cleans. Caitríona Lally said the honor was “the happiest shock of my life.”

The more I stay in the field the more I think about how technology and the new understanding of how the human brain works are essential to the treatment of addiction. This is a quick read.

Neurology May Better Addiction Therapy | News | The Harvard Crimson Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, last night outlined a series of scientific findings which

I have always incorporated cardio workout in my treatment. Here is a good read. Enjoy.

Depression, anxiety, OCD - running helped us beat them Runners share their personal stories about why they run

Good information shared here.

4 Easy Tips To Ease The Gut Learn how to start the day feeling nourished the RIGHT way.

Hahahaaa... for all of us who do things just because... a good read.

Where 11 Popular Wedding Traditions Came From 9. Once upon a time, the best man helped the groom capture the bride from her kinsmen.

We always swing back to feeding the body what it needs to maintain health. Avery good and short read. Enjoy.