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Interview with Michel Perron, CEO, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse — Michel Perron of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse speaks to UNODC’s Raggie Johansen on the role of NGOs at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commissio…

UN anti-narcotics panel urges greater stock in prevention, treatment of drug abuse
4 March 2014 – Investment in prevention and treatment of drug abuse can lead to significant savings in health-care and crime-related costs, and alleviate the suffering of drug-dependent users and their families, the independent United Nations body …
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I'm the fat beggar': Kids Company's Camila Batmanghelidjh reveals why the …
But the fact remains that there hasn't been a robust recovery plan for children in this country since Victorian times." Batmanghelidjh has worked tirelessly … She went on to become a psychotherapist before, increasingly frustrated by the limitations …
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Following its main character, Adele (Ms. Exarchopoulos) from adolescence into adulthood, the director, Abdellatif Kechiche, tracks the awakening of her consciousness with exquisite empathy. He also, perhaps more remarkably, grounds her emerging …
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Question by Dani: What is an intensive outpatient program?
Im thirteen and When I told my school guidance counselor I cut she made me go to get a psych evaluation and the person from the evaluation wants me to go into one a few towns away but it’s the closest one to where I live. Btw it’s for like three hours a night five nights a week (grrrrrrrr -.-) and don’t tell me like not o freak me out, I need to know like what it is in general.

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Answer by Allison
Pretty much a therapist . I told my therapist that I cut and she sent me to a mental hospital.

Answer by D
Well consider this: the alternative is INPATIENT treatment, where you are hospitalized. Instead, this will likely be groups and classes to help you understand yourself and meet others with similar issues. Outpatient therapy is really not a bad thing.

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If you've tried a half dozen different things already — talk to a friend, exercise more, seek out support online, read up on various self-help techniques online — and nothing has made much of a difference, that may be a sign it's time to talk to a …
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Physical therapy on the rise for pets
When Ronna Kelly's dog Cici made little progress following knee surgery, Kelly decided the athletic Australian shepherd mix should try treatment usually reserved for humans: physical therapy. Zack, a golden retriever, uses an underwater treadmill for a …
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Groups vying for money for youth programs to prevent drug abuse
HARLAN, Ky. (WYMT) – Four years after receiving half a million dollars to go towards programs to prevent drug abuse among children, the Harlan County Fiscal Court still has not decided how to spend it. The court system awarded the money in 2010 from …
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Question by Estella LA Gal: what is involved in the different types of psychiatry?
i know there is many different types of psychiatry eg. adolescent and clinical and so on….

but what is involved in each type of psychiatry and which on would you personally say is most interesting?

I like to deal with troubled people because i find this most rewarding and i like to know why people do what they do ( like what motivates peoples actions ) what kind of psychiatry do you think i would be best at?

thanks

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Answer by D.D
here is how that goes, you get into uni, do four years of premed undergraduate work , then apply to med school…………in the time you take all those classes , then after you finish med school you have to go on to study psychiatry…….most of what is taught are diagnositic categories and the use medications
by that time you will know what you want to do for sure, and probably in undergraduate school