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ER Visits for abuse of Ecstasy has increased |
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:57 |
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 According to reports, "Emergency room visits related to use of the illicit drug ecstasy rose 74.8 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA),HealthDay News reported March 24.
A new analysis from SAMHSA's Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) showed that ER visits related to use of ecstasy jumped from 10,200 in 2004 to 17,865 in 2008. The drug is addictive, and can cause, "anxiety, agitation, recklessness, increased blood pressure, dehydration, heat stroke, muscle cramping, blurred vision, hyperthermia, heart failure, and kidney failure," according to The DAWN Report released March 24. Use in a crowded dance parties can increase its cardiovascular risks.
"It remains to be determined how severe the long-term neurotoxic effects may be on the brain," said Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. "There is no reason for anyone to believe that the use of this drug is safe at some dose -- the risk is consequential at any dose."
Most patients -- 69.3 percent – treated for ecstasy use were between the ages of 18 and 29, but 17.9 percent were between the ages of 12 and 17. The majority of patients (77.8 percent) used ecstasy in combination with one other drug (31.3 percent); two other drugs (15.0 percent); three other drugs (14.0 percent); or four or more other drugs (17.5 percent).
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Calif. Leads Nation in Quitting Smoking; Anti-Tobacco Policies Credited |
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 00:46 |
 Well obviously they're doing something right! AS much as other states make fun of them, researchers have found that when it comes to quitting smoking, Californians have done better than people from the rest of the nation, probably because of stricter tobacco control policies, The Los Angeles Times reported March 16.
The research team reviewed smoking data between 1965 and 2007, and compared how smoking patterns changed over time and by age. According to the study abstract, they analyzed data from the National Health Interview Surveys, 1965-1994, and from the Current Population Survey Tobacco Supplements, 1992-2007.
Overall, the researchers compared 139,176 Californians with 1,662,353 respondents from other states. They divided smokers into three categories: high-intensity, consuming 20 or more cigarettes a day; moderate-to-high-intensity, smoking 10-19 cigarettes a day; and low-intensity, smoking 0-9 a day.
Smoking rates in the low-intensity cohort did not change significantly in either California or the United States: California started at 7.1 percent in 1965, the rest of the U.S. started at 7.0 percent -- and both fell to 5.3 percent by 2007.
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Bad news for Maine: State may Eliminate Residential Treatment Services |
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Monday, 14 March 2011 15:04 |
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According to the Maine Public Broadcasting Network as reported March 9, even though the state of Maine has a rate of alcohol and drug addiction eight times higher than the rest of the nation, budget cuts there may soon force the closure of 10 out of 13 residential treatment centers.
Maine governor Paul Le Page is proposing to cut $5.6 million from the state's substance abuse treatment programs. Most treatment providers say the cuts will be so deep that they will have to stop operating.
"It's the classic pennywise-pound foolish, because we treat people at less than half the cost of the corrections community," said Roger Prince of Serenity House, a substance abuse treatment program that is over 40 years old.
"So what do we want to do? Do we want to close this place down and send [our clients] back to jail or to the emergency room? It makes no sense to me," he said.
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Some States Have Axed Mental Health Funds, Report Finds |
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Monday, 14 March 2011 14:55 |
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According to a report by Reuters reported March 9, two out of three states have made deep cuts in general fund spending on mental health care in the past two years.
Additionally, in a report released by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), two-thirds of all states slashed non-Medicaid mental health funding. NAMI examined the budgets of all 50 states and the District of Columbia for its analysis. States that cut the most are: Kentucky (47 percent), Alaska (35 percent) Arizona (23 percent), and South Carolina (23 percent).
"Cutting mental health means that costs only get shifted to emergency rooms, schools, police, local courts, jails and prisons," said Michael Fitzpatrick, NAMI's director. "The taxpayer still pays the bill."
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