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Adolescence conjures up the opening line from Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....' It's a period when [...]

Picture this: You're walking down the hall of the psychiatric hospital where you recently started working when you see a painting you think might upset your clients. The large canvas [...]

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a higher risk of developing later substance use problems, according to research from the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania. Researchers interviewed 142 [...]

Most physicians willingly embark on a discussion of prenatal care with clients, asking about folic acid intake and weight gain. Yet many may feel uncomfortable broaching the issue of alcohol [...]

Dr. Jodi Viljoen, an assistant professor in clinical and forensic psychology and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, studies adolescent offenders. Here she [...]

What are benzodiazepines? Benzodiazepines, better known as tranquilizers, sedatives and 'downers;' are a family of drugs that work by depressing the central nervous system. They are typically used to treat [...]

Non-medical prescription drug use is generally perceived to be less harmful than illicit drug use. This is one of several corn, inch misconceptions you can address with youth to promote [...]

Online therapy is emerging as a legitimate, sometimes even the preferred method of delivering mental health and addiction services. Still, clinical professionals may be reluctant to work online because they [...]

What proportion of older adults uses pain medication? Although adults aged 65 and older make up approximately 13 per cent of the population in Canada, they consume 20 to 40 [...]

Humiliation combined with loss can trigger depression more than loss alone, according to researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. The researchers inter viewed 7,322 adult twins, asking about [...]

A strong association exists between alcohol consumption and fatal accidents in Canada over the last 50 years, according to research from the University of Osle in Norway. Researchers examined annual [...]

Older adults who are homeless have unique health needs and reasons for accessing shelters, according to researchers at the University of Toronto. The researchers conducted a combined literature search, demographic [...]

Smoking increases the risk of panic attacks and panic disorder, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. A four year follow-up survey of 3,021 [...]

Co-prescription of heroin to people with treatment-resistant addiction can help where methadone treatment alone fails, suggests a study from the Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts in Utrecht, [...]

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) at school for students who have been exposed to violence may decrease symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, according to research from RAND in Santa [...]

Researchers have uncovered a variation of a gene called Nogo, overexpressed in schizophrenia, which suggests why certain individuals may develop the disease. University of Toronto researchers analyzed DNA samples from [...]

New research shows a link between sexual harassment and eating disorders among women that is mediated by psychological stress, self-esteem and self-blame. Only one study to date has examined a [...]

Different types of antidepressants seem to be equally effective in men and women, according to a recent study. American researchers analyzed data collected over a 20-year period from nine different [...]

The financial strain and loss of personal control accompanying job loss are responsible for the related downward spiralling in mental and physical health, suggests new research out of the University [...]

Older individuals with alcohol dependency adhere more to medication and therapy than younger individuals, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers followed 183 clients being treated for [...]

Heavy coffee drinkers are less likely to develop diabetes than light or non-coffee drinkers. Researchers in the Netherlands followed 17,111 Dutch men and women, aged 30 to 60, from 1987 [...]

Drinking one glass of alcohol per day is enough to boost breast cancer risk in women, while smoking does not, according to researchers in the United Kingdom. They analyzed data [...]

Three new studies reported in the British Medical Journal offer more evidence that frequent, heavy smoking of marijuana increases susceptibility to depression and schizophrenia. A six-year study of nearly 2,000 [...]

AS NEW AND IMPROVED DRUG THERAPIES FOR TREATING THE hepatitis C virus (HCV) are explored, the hope is that treatment will reduce transmission and disease complications, such as liver failure. [...]

SINCE 1998, ONTARIO HAS BEEN MOVING toward establishing a new standard of primary care. The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) has voted to allow the province to offer family doctors in [...]

LESS THAN A DECADE AGO, JAPAN MIGHT have been scolded for having among the world's longest hospitalization times, keeping over two-thirds of its mental health clients behind locked doors and [...]

Determinants of Plasma Vitamin E AUTHORS: A.L. Coker, G.R. Jenkins and L. Pirisi. University of South Carolina at Columbia. According to the authors' abstract of a poster presentation to the [...]