Here on ACEs Connection, under EVENTS, there is a listing for a program called, "End It Now." It ran last night, today, and is scheduled (at least where I live) to run again tomorrow (Sun. the 13th of April, 2014), and Wed. the 16th of April....
Dr. Bruce Perry, MD is taking his attachment theory healing for developmental trauma to Washington, as I wrote April 4 , in a May 4 program for the National Council for Behavioral Health . “Perry Rocks Washington” is my alternate title...
New Braunfels, Texas -- With National Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month as a backdrop, a local organization gathered many different voices in one room Wednesday to discuss ways to create lasting solutions for battling the effects of child...
Photo credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse People are most likely to begin abusing drugs—and that includes tobacco, alcohol, and illegal and prescription drugs—as teens and young adults. By senior year, almost 70 percent of high...
Newborns whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy to any one of a variety of environmental stressors -- such as trauma, illness, and alcohol or drug abuse -- become susceptible to various psychiatric disorders that frequently arise later in life....
Photo credit: Douglas Palmer, Flickr Statistics show that the amount of older adults in the criminal justice system has quadrupled in the past 15 years. Many of the adults have histories of mental health problems and are being placed in...
An undated photo of Spc. Ivan Lopez. Lopez is suspected of fatally shooting three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas on April 2, 2014. Credit: Puerto Rico National Guard via BBC . In the wake of a string of...
Dozens of mentally ill people die in run-ins with police every year. Last month, a homeless camper in Albuquerque, N.M., was killed in a shooting captured on an officer's helmet camera, sparking an FBI investigation and a protest that forced the city...
Eight-year-old Francis Csedrik pauses mid-swing in his backyard in Washington, D.C. Like most kids, he's gradually losing his memories of things that happened when he was 3 years old. Credit: Meg Vogel/NPR Scientists have known about...
Photo credit: Zhao!, Flickr New research has found that a child's relationships may be a hidden casualty long after a head injury. Neuroscientists at Brigham Young University studied a group of children three years after each had suffered a...
Final preparations for the inaugural Regional Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) on April 16 are being completed. More than 300 people have registered to attend this event, which is sponsored by the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) and local...
Photo from http://www.medicinenet.com/rheumatoid_arthritis_pictures_slideshow/article.htm A history of parental addictions is associated with cumulative lifetime incidence of arthritis in adulthood, even after adjustment for...
Photo credit: http://www.setster.com/blog/stressed-out-get-control/ Stress is bad for us; decades of research have documented that. It contributes to many mental and physical health problems. But - a growing field of research explores another...
Ch ronic cigarette smoking has a high co-occurrence with alcohol use disorders, and roughly 60 to 90 percent of alcohol dependent (AD) individuals seeking treatment are chronic smokers. Postural instability is also common among AD individuals, because...
A father's age at the time of his daughter's birth may affect her risk for breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer in adulthood, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data from more than 133,000 women who took part in a study of California...