Addiction

Voices for Non-Opioid Choices Coalition Applauds Introduction of Alternatives to PAIN Act in Senate

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
PAIN, Opioid, Addiction, Pain, Drug, Risk, House, Pain management, Medicare, Patient, Medicare Part D, Representative, Alternatives, Senate, Health insurance

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Senate took a crucial step forward in the fight to prevent opioid addiction by introducing the bipartisan Alternatives to Prevent Addiction in the Nation (PAIN) Act. The Alternatives to PAIN Act will ensure that all Americans can access safe, effective, non-addictive pain management approaches. In the process, the Alternatives to PAIN Act can prevent opioid addiction that occurs following an acute pain incident and save lives.

Key Points: 
  • The Alternatives to PAIN Act will ensure that all Americans can access safe, effective, non-addictive pain management approaches.
  • In the process, the Alternatives to PAIN Act can prevent opioid addiction that occurs following an acute pain incident and save lives.
  • "Over one million American seniors are diagnosed with opioid addiction every year," said Chris Fox, Executive Director of the Voices for Non-Opioid Choices Coalition .
  • In January, Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) and Representative Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) introduced companion legislation, The Alternatives to PAIN Act (H.R.

'An Urgent Public Health Necessity' - National Institute for Play Releases New Report Underlining Science and Power of Play

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Grammatical mood, Foreword, Anxiety, Emotion, Multimedia, Socialization, Vocabulary, Sleep, Loneliness, Storyteller, Pleasure, Depression, Heart, Mevalonate pathway, Imagination, Competition, Biology, Addiction, Travel, Brain, Pharmaceutical industry

The free report, entitled The Power of Play: Losing and Finding Ourselves through Everyday Play, advances the understanding that play is proven to lead to healthier, happier lives.

Key Points: 
  • The free report, entitled The Power of Play: Losing and Finding Ourselves through Everyday Play, advances the understanding that play is proven to lead to healthier, happier lives.
  • Its authors, Scott G. Eberle, Ph.D., and Stuart Brown, M.D., have spent decades studying the impact of play on the human condition.
  • It collectively asserts that the diminishing presence of play in our daily lives is an urgent public health matter.
  • Ancient in its origins, play is core to the human experience and is engrained in all of us.

'An Urgent Public Health Necessity' - National Institute for Play Releases New Report Underlining Science and Power of Play

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Grammatical mood, Foreword, Anxiety, Emotion, Socialization, Vocabulary, Sleep, Loneliness, Storyteller, Pleasure, Depression, Heart, Mevalonate pathway, Imagination, Competition, Biology, Addiction, Travel, Brain, Pharmaceutical industry

The free report, entitled The Power of Play: Losing and Finding Ourselves through Everyday Play, advances the understanding that play is proven to lead to healthier, happier lives.

Key Points: 
  • The free report, entitled The Power of Play: Losing and Finding Ourselves through Everyday Play, advances the understanding that play is proven to lead to healthier, happier lives.
  • Its authors, Scott G. Eberle, Ph.D., and Stuart Brown, M.D., have spent decades studying the impact of play on the human condition.
  • It collectively asserts that the diminishing presence of play in our daily lives is an urgent public health matter.
  • The report was produced by NIFP with support by Visit California and contributors Anthony Christopher, Lauren Sundstrom, Bowen F. White, and Tom Norquist.

Matter Neuroscience Secures $26M in Funding to Cure Unhappiness

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Neuroimaging, DEPT, Happiness, Diagnosis, Anxiety, Mental health, Interventional radiology, Emotion, Research, Biomedical engineering, Professor, Collaborative Fund, Capitalism, Polaris Partners, Capital, Imaging, Neurology, Risk, Trial of the century, Health, Human Brain Project, Medical imaging, Brain mapping, ARCH, Bayer, Bouchon, Maastricht University, Biological engineering, Psychiatry, Science, Magnetic resonance, ARCH Venture Partners, Good Worldwide, Addiction, Brain, Depression

NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Matter Neuroscience, the company working to unlock a deeper understanding of happiness and well-being by providing people with personalized insights into their brain chemistry emerges from stealth mode today. Matter announced it has received $26 million in funding, initial funding seeded by Polaris Partners and a more recent round co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Polaris Partners, and Exor Ventures, and joined by Collaborative Fund and others. With this backing, Matter will bolster its efforts to pioneer solutions that address the unhappiness epidemic by transforming our understanding and management of mental well-being.

Key Points: 
  • With this backing, Matter will bolster its efforts to pioneer solutions that address the unhappiness epidemic by transforming our understanding and management of mental well-being.
  • Together with its collaboration partners, Matter Neuroscience will initiate three more clinical studies in 2024.
  • Matter also offers users access to educational materials and a lecture series on the neuroscience of happiness.
  • Matter Neuroscience was co-founded in 2019 with Ben Goldhirsh of GOOD Worldwide and the Goldhirsh Foundation, and Chris Shiflett of Faculty and Brooklyn Beta.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Continues Its Distinctive, Steadfast and Positive Impact on the Widespread and Complex Mental Health Crisis

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
DSM-IV codes, Mental health, FDA, Suicide, Injury, Mental, Mental disorder, Social responsibility, Health, Attention, Human, Biomarker, Therapy, Ecosystem, Public, Policy, Depression, AAA, National Alliance, Patient, Veteran, Military personnel, Congress, Navy, Heart, Trauma, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Investment, Addiction, Biogen, Partnership, Nursing

PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE), the first, preeminent, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer of collaborative life science mega campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, continues to make a distinctive, steadfast and positive impact on the widespread and complex mental health crisis through one of the company's bedrock social responsibility pillars that prioritizes this unprecedented crisis. With more than 1 in 5 American adults living with a mental illness and over 50,000 suicides in the United States in 2023, including over 6,000 veterans who die by suicide annually, the nation's shared societal responsibility to drive forward treatments and solutions to this devastating public health challenge is immense. The National Alliance on Mental Illness estimates that untreated mental illness represents an economic burden to the nation of over $300 billion each year — a number that understates the true costs of these conditions for those afflicted as well as for their families and society.

Key Points: 
  • "The staggering yet often overlooked mental health crisis in our country is the defining public health challenge of our time.
  • Our Alexandria Summit on Mental Health will set an agenda to drive significant reform, catalyze new mission-critical public-private partnerships and influence policy to accelerate innovation that saves lives."
  • Mental health issues often co-occur with substance use issues, with roughly 50 percent of individuals with severe mental disorders also impacted by addiction.
  • Military personnel and veterans experience mental health and addiction issues at dramatically higher rates than the general U.S. population.

Double Board-Certified Psychiatrist Dr. Jay Faber, MD, Will Be Speaking at the Brain Health Symposium Conference at the Loews Hotel Miami Beach, March 1, 2024, 1:30 - 3:00 PM EST

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Fentanyl, Amen Clinics, Education, Substance abuse, MD, Addiction, Neurology, Conference, Alternative medicine, Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Brain, George Washington University, American Academy, Nursing

Only a select few in the study of neurology have the opportunity to speak at this worldwide impactful conference about the brain.

Key Points: 
  • Only a select few in the study of neurology have the opportunity to speak at this worldwide impactful conference about the brain.
  • Jay Faber, MD is a double board-certified adult and child/adolescent psychiatrist.
  • In addition to his psychiatric degrees, Dr. Faber found it necessary to acquire a board certification in metabolic medicine from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
  • With that expansion of education, Dr. Faber has found more effective holistic ways to address both brain-body issues.

Anonymous Health Expands Innovative Addiction Care Services to Oregon

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Fentanyl, MAT, Addiction medicine, Heroin, Cocaine, Interest, Nicotine, Health, Anonymous, Internal medicine, Patient, Senior counsel, Case management, Providence Health & Services, Addiction

PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Anonymous Health, a pioneer in outpatient teletherapy services, is proud to announce its statewide expansion across Oregon.

Key Points: 
  • PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Anonymous Health, a pioneer in outpatient teletherapy services, is proud to announce its statewide expansion across Oregon.
  • "We are excited to help address long-standing capacity and access challenges of addiction care in Oregon, including in rural communities," said Medical Director, Dr. Palani Chidambaram.
  • "(1) Dr. Chidambaram is Board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, and he founded and leads the addiction medicine practice at several Providence Health System hospitals in the Portland, Oregon region.
  • Personalized Care and Advanced Technology: Anonymous Health's Approach
    Patients at Anonymous Health receive near-immediate attention from a dedicated Concierge Care Manager.

NEDHSA sponsors Biedenharn Museum's "Scripture Through Many Eyes" Exhibition, opening reception set for February 22

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Religious text, Mental health, Emotion, Person, Addiction, Substance abuse, Dream, Exhibition, American Heritage Museum, Disability studies, System, Creativity, Medicine, Music, The arts, Museum, Environment

MONROE, La., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Northeast Delta Human Services Authority (NEDHSA) announces the sponsorship of Biedenharn Museum & Gardens' "Scripture Through Many Eyes" Art Exhibition. This exhibition is part of the agency's Art Is Medicine special initiative, an integrated health care, evidence-based prevention, communications, and treatment strategy to help serve persons with mental health, addictive disorders, and developmental disabilities.

Key Points: 
  • NEDHSA sponsors Biedenharn Museum's "Scripture Through Many Eyes" Exhibition, opening reception set for February 22
    MONROE, La., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Northeast Delta Human Services Authority (NEDHSA) announces the sponsorship of Biedenharn Museum & Gardens' "Scripture Through Many Eyes" Art Exhibition.
  • "We intend to help create an environment where dreams are realized, families are strong, bodies are healthy, community institutions are thriving, and spirits are renewed," Dr. Sizer said.
  • NEDHSA Executive Director Dr. Monteic A. Sizer said, "we believe there is medicine in creative expression, and the arts can help a person come alive in ways traditional treatment options can't."
  • We're helping people in our region to understand addiction and mental health issues with this innovative prevention approach," Dr. Sizer said.

Government of Canada announces first steps in its Action Plan to support Black public servants

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Treasury Board of Canada, Employee assistance program, Mental health, Health Canada, Workplace, The Honourable, PSC, Investment, Addiction, Racism, Government, Action plan, Organization, Task force, Public service, TBS, Public Service Commission, Research, Employment, Nursing

As a result, nearly $50 million is supporting the creation and development of the Action Plan for Black Public Servants (Action Plan) to establish career development programs and mental health supports for Black public servants.

Key Points: 
  • As a result, nearly $50 million is supporting the creation and development of the Action Plan for Black Public Servants (Action Plan) to establish career development programs and mental health supports for Black public servants.
  • Today, the Honourable Anita Anand, President of the Treasury Board, announced the first initiatives of the Action Plan, which will continue to be refined through meaningful input from Black public servants.
  • The Public Service Commission (PSC) is receiving funding to provide individualized assessment, counselling and coaching services to Black public servants.
  • - The Honourable Ya'ara Saks, Minister of Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health
    For more information about the Action Plan, public servants can contact the Task Force for Black Public Servants at [email protected] .

GROUND-BREAKING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE COFFEE INDUSTRY BY A CANADIAN-BASED COMPANY

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Monday, February 19, 2024
Parliament, Racism, Social change, CED, Addiction, National Bank of Canada, Economy, City, Transport, FTQ, Government, Climate change, SME, CO2, Coffee, Mental health, National bank, Environment, Renewable energy

Rémi Tremblay, CEO of Café William, stated, "This accomplishment underscores our dedication to innovation and industry excellence.

Key Points: 
  • Rémi Tremblay, CEO of Café William, stated, "This accomplishment underscores our dedication to innovation and industry excellence.
  • Earlier this year, our successful demonstration of coffee transportation via cargo sailboat showcased our commitment to sustainability.
  • Today, we mark yet another sustainable initiative in our supply chain aimed at reducing the ecological impact of our coffee."
  • We're excited about the possibilities this achievement opens up for Café William, which has chosen to follow this path with us, and for the industry."