The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that the U.S. epidemic of opioid abuse could lead to more severe outbreaks of HIV and hepatitis C nationally, much like the outbreak now seen in Indiana. A health advisory the...
As long as there have been schools and classes, there have been students who don't show up. And educators scratching their heads over what to do about it. In most states, missing a lot of school means a trip to the principal's office. In Texas,...
In 1989, I was 22 years old, and I had just been diagnosed with PTSD stemming from childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, abandonment, and neglect. What I needed more than therapy or books or experts or support groups was to meet a woman,...
It's always interesting to read a story or hear a conversation talking about trauma-informed principles without ever using the terms. It makes me think about how the conversation could be elevated if trauma-informed care was factored into the...
Adults can have a bigger influence on youths growing up in poor, violent neighborhoods than they may realize, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 26 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Diego....
For Michael Walke, the end of his second marriage led to the binges. “They would be like two- or three-day events, sitting in my chair here,” the retired hospital administrator and amateur actor said as he sat in the front room of...
Each spring, a group of editors from our parent company, ECM Publishers, spends a day at the state capitol in St. Paul, meeting with the governor, legislative leaders and other state officials. We come prepared with our questions, and we learn...
Medical experts are increasingly realizing that early childhood trauma stunts brain development and leaves kids at risk for lifelong health and behavioral problems. That was one of the major takeaways from the 25th annual Forum on Child Abuse...
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched research in the 1990s into the relationship between traumatic experiences in childhood and health problems in adulthood, they first focused on mental health outcomes and health...
In the spring of 2009, California-based writer Sharael Kolberg did the math and estimated that she spent four months of her year using some form of entertainment technology — whether watching TV or surfing the Internet. So Kolberg, 44,...
New research shows that it doesn't take much for kids to be considered couch potatoes. Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese compared to children who...
In the weeks after 9/11, Pamela Cantor, a child psychiatrist specializing in trauma, was enlisted by the New York City Board of Education to lead a team studying the impact of the attacks on the city’s public school children. What the...
Here's a great radio spot from Sheilah Kast at WYPR's "Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast", interviewing Baltimore's Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen. Dr. Wen participated in the Urban Health Institute at Johns Hopkins' Conference on Trauma's...
Definitely time for me to pursue a little R&R!!! My self-assigned work for the weekend has been completed! +Early trauma (high ACE scores), attachment disorders and impaired empathy: great power in new research that combines the three
When he asked, “Is this bottom?” in the middle of yet another crisis that took me from work, writing and my daughter, I said, “I hope so.” The bottom was ten times after I thought he had already face-planted into...