Do I Have an Oxycodone Addiction?
According to Healthline, Oxycodone is used to treat moderate to severe pain. It can be used short term or long term, depending on your condition. It is an opioid oral tablet and is better known by its other generic brand names, including Oxaydo, Roxicodone, Roxybond, and OxyContin. It is available in five forms, and since it is an opioid medication, it can be very easy to form an Oxycodone addiction. If you feel as if you may be forming an addiction to Oxycodone, make sure you are aware of the signs, symptoms and when it’s time to get help. Oxycodone Addiction Warning Signs Oxycodone can be a very helpful tool for many ...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - October 10, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Painkiller Substance Abuse opiate opiate addiction opioid opioids oxycodone oxycodone abuse prescription drug abuse prescription drug addiction prescription drug use prescription drugs pre Source Type: blogs

Our Golden Years? Research Into The Ups And Downs Of Retirement, Digested
By Emma Young If you ever daydream about retirement, what do you picture? Lie-ins, instead of being woken by an alarm? Walks on a beach, in place of the morning commute? More time for beloved hobbies? Or perhaps endless open, solitary days, with nothing much to do…? Retirement is what psychologists term a “major life transition”. As such, it’s regarded as a stressor that carries risks as well as potential rewards. Now that the number of retirees in many countries is soaring, so too is the number of studies into whether retirement is good for your mental and physical health — or not. This work certainly suggests ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Health Mental health Source Type: blogs

Three letter acronyms and what they mean – CBT, DBT, CFT, ACT – not alphabet soup!
Once you begin to dip your toes into psychological therapies, it doesn’t take long before you begin to see TLAs all over the place. So today I’m going to post on two things: some of the TLAs, and why or how we might consider using these approaches in pain rehabilitation. The first one is CBT, or cognitive behavioural therapy. CBT grew out of two movements: behaviour therapy (Skinner and the pigeons, rats and all that behaviour modification stuff), and cognitive therapy (Ellis and Beck and the “cognitive triad” – more on this later). When the two approaches to therapy are combined, we have c...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 6, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Clinical reasoning Cognitive behavioral therapy Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice Source Type: blogs

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SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 According to the California Health Care Foundation, from 2012-2014, nearly 20% of Californian adults who sought mental health treatment did not receive it. It is believed that these figures may even be understated, as The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has cited that nearly 60% of American adults with mental illness do not receive any treatment. Unmet mental health needs in California are attributed to a lack of access to appropriate services and providers, as well as the cost of care, a factor that is often exacerbated by a lack of heal...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Health Tech CalMHSA help @ hand Mental Health SAMSHSA Source Type: blogs

CVS Health: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) apps may help you more than sleeping pills
__________ Sleep Therapy for the Masses May Be Coming to You Soon (The New York Times): “CVS Health wants to help millions of American workers improve their sleep. So for the first time, the big pharmacy benefits manager is offering a purely digital therapy as a possible employee benefit. The company is encouraging employers to cover the costs for their workers to use Sleepio, an Sleepio app featuring a cartoon therapist that delivers behavior modification lessons. CVS Health’s push could help mainstream the nascent business of digital therapeutics, which markets apps to help treat conditions like schizophrenia and mul...
Source: SharpBrains - September 25, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Big Health cognitive-behavioral-therapy CVS Health digital therapeutics digital therapy mental health Novartis sleep sleep aid medications Sleepio Source Type: blogs

SAMHSA Quietly Deleted All Blog Entries Before 2017
The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, quietly deleted hundreds of blog entries from its blog that pre-dated the current administration. The oldest entries date back only to September 2017, with hundreds of missing entries on a blog that began its life nine years ago on October 4, 2010. Why did SAMHSA delete its history of blog entries from before the current president’s administration? Historically, the SAMHSA blog published anywhere from 4 to 12 articles per month, highlighting a wide variety of public mental hea...
Source: World of Psychology - September 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy censorship Samhsa Source Type: blogs

Is Your Past Too Heavy to Haul Around?
Imagine a cloth bag containing 10 pounds of river rocks, their surface smoothed by years of water washing over them, tumbling them, moving them downstream. You are asked how long you could possibly hold the bag draped over your shoulder or held extended out from one arm. What might your answer be? When I offered this exercise at a substance addiction out-patient rehab where I worked from 2012-2014, the teens would laugh and say that they could do it for an extended period of time. I nodded and they took on the challenge. Within moments, their resolve faded as they realized how heavy 10 pounds could be and try as they migh...
Source: World of Psychology - September 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Perfectionism Personal Self-Esteem Self-Help Substance Abuse Success & Achievement Addiction Failure Personal Growth regret Self Improvement self-worth Source Type: blogs

The Resiliency of Survivors of Suicide Loss
Being a survivor of suicide loss is a unique kind of grief. In the realm of mental health stigma, suicide is about as nightmare as you can get.  A survivor of suicide loss endures many days of bewilderment. While the momentum of episodic depression, anxiety, and substance abuse that often precedes suicide comes to a screeching halt for your loved one in their death, the hurricane force winds rage on for the survivor, now compiled with even more pain, confusion, and grief, as you process the sudden loss of your loved one.  In addition to your own sense of loss, you are forced to come up with euphemisms to describe to othe...
Source: World of Psychology - September 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bonnie McClure Tags: Grief and Loss Suicide Bereavement grieving National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Source Type: blogs

Can You Form an Addiction to Suboxone?
While Suboxone can be a helpful tool for many, it is important to also understand its addictive nature. Because it is an opioid, wondering if you can form an addiction to Suboxone can be answered simply: Yes. Although the rates of addiction are much smaller than those of other opioids, it is still important to take their addictive properties seriously and get help if you start to notice the signs and symptoms of addiction to Suboxone. What is Suboxone? According to their own website, Suboxone is a prescription medicine that contains the active ingredients buprenorphine and naloxone. It is used to treat adults who are depe...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - September 13, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Substance Abuse addiction treatment addictionologist detox drug detox medical detox medicated-assisted detox prescription drug detox prescription medication suboxone Source Type: blogs

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SPONSORED POST By CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0 According to the California Health Care Foundation, from 2012-2014, nearly 20% of Californian adults who sought mental health treatment did not receive it. It is believed that these figures may even be understated, as The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has cited that nearly 60% of American adults with mental illness do not receive any treatment. Unmet mental health needs in California are attributed to a lack of access to appropriate services and providers, as well as the cost of care, a factor that is often exacerbated by a lack of healt...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Health Tech Health Technology Start-Ups Help@Hand Innovation Mental Health Source Type: blogs

VA Pathologist Indicted for Multiple and Continuing Errors, Resulting in Deaths
In what can only be described as a disaster due to organizational failure, a pathologist working at theVeterans Health Care System of the Ozarks has been charged with involuntary manslaughter (see:Former Arkansas VA Doctor Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter In 3 Deaths). Below is an excerpt from the article with the details: A former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital was charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three patients whose records he allegedly falsified to conceal his misdiagnoses. According to federal prosecutors, Dr. Robert Morris Levy, 53, is also ch...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 3, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Diagnostics Hospital Executive Management Lab Processes and Procedures Lab Standards Medical Ethics Quality of Care Surgical Pathology Source Type: blogs