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If you’re in the UK, you might be interested in checking out some of the programing planned on television and radio dealing with mental health. And, for those of us not in the UK, if you want to come back and let us know how the shows are and what you learn, you can always…
Sharing – Affordable treatment for mental illness and substance abuse gets harder to find
These two facts are hard to explain. “Spending for all types of substance abuse treatment was just 0.9 percent of total health-care spending in 2017. Mental health treatment accounted for 2.4 percent of total spending. In 2017, 70,237 Americans died of drug overdoses, and 47,173 from suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Spotting the Warning Signs of Depression in Men tags: CA Child abuse: discussing the unspeakable tags: CA New Study Details Benefits of Interventions for Child Abuse/Neglect tags: CA Accepting Submissions for the March 2013 Edition of the Blog Against Child Abuse tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
CSA Libel Via Twitter Charge Upheld Against Sally Bercow
Catching up with all the news recently in a fortnight dominated by the murder of a British soldier in London and the tornado in Oklahoma, and the bank holiday in both countries, one of the biggest stories followed on from a legal court case where Lord McAlpine took Sally Bercow to court. A court ruled…
Important Lesson From Grooming Example
This story about men in the UK being sentenced for grooming and then abusing young girls had an interesting fact in it that I wanted to share. The court heard how the men identified vulnerable girls for abuse and then groomed each one of them until they were under the control of the gang. They…
Daily Mail Mistaken CSA ID General Features
The Daily Mail published and updated its view on the mistaken identification of the wrong politician in the North Wales child abuse scandal last Friday, updating it on Monday 12th November. That article is here. This first article from last week was not the hatchet job on Stephen Messham implied by one of the Independent on Sunday’s articles linked…
