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Understanding Overdose Risks and Choosing the Right Addiction Therapy for Substance Abuse

Clear Behavioral Health

Substance abuse is one of the most critical public health crises in the United States, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The Impact of Substance Abuse Substance abuse takes a significant toll on your physical and mental health.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

Mad in America

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Doctors are beginning to recognize they also fall into the category of “pushers” who do it legally by getting their patients hooked on addictive medications. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.