Mental Health
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Opioid Use Among Elderly With Dementia
Opioid use for pain management among elderly patients with dementia and nursing home residents raises concerns.
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CBT for Insomnia
Improvements in sleep time variables were associated with significant alleviation of symptoms when measured with subjective tools.
Best Practices
Yoga-Based Classes for Veterans With Severe Mental Illness: Development, Dissemination, and Assessment
Throughout 8 weeks of yoga-based wellness classes, veterans were assessed for perceived benefits, pain, stress, and biological, psychological,...
Pilot Program
Baseball Reminiscence Therapy for Cognitively Impaired Veterans
A support group, focused on sports memories, provided a nonpharmalogic intervention to help maintain cognitive function and improve quality of...
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Delirium in the Cardiac ICU
A diagnosis of delirium in the cardiac intensive care unit significantly affected length of stay and mortality in patients.
Government and Regulations
The Statistics Behind Behavioral Health Care
Published data from SAMHSA show the effect substance abuse and mental illness have on receiving proper health care.
Government and Regulations
Help for Mass Disaster Survivors
SAMHSA's Disaster Distress Helpline offers around-the-clock crisis counseling for victims of community tragedies.
Original Research
Assessment of a Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program As Needed Medication List
Providing access to many over-the-counter medications seemed to improve patient and provider satisfaction while reducing emergent care costs for...
News
Herpes: Risk Factor for Alzheimer Disease?
With 90% of the population containing latent HSV1, researchers found the factors that connect with Alzheimers diagnoses.