Doctors should adopt healthy habits to help encourage the uptake of physical activity and lifestyle medicine programmes in primary care patients, an RCGP workshop heard.

Drug addiction manifests as a compulsive drive to take a drug despite serious adverse consequences. This aberrant behaviour has traditionally been viewed as bad 'choices' that are made voluntarily ...

Offering comprehensive case management, support and advocacy to individuals with behavioral health needs at all points of the justice system continuum. Offering comprehensive case management, support ...

According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, 3.8 percent of American adults abuse opioids each year. Heroin is a drug that comes from a flower, the opium poppy, which usually grows ...

most medical schools provide only minimal substance abuse education to students and residents in primary care," said Barbara Schindler, MD, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Drexel University ...

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors ... the incorporation of behavioral health into the field is upping the ante for education. "The scope of the work has widened," he says ...

A substance abuse or addiction counselor will perform assessments, create treatment plans, give referrals, provide education and counseling, and be on hand to help in a crisis. A counselor also ...

To facilitate the development of the curriculum, the team has been awarded a grant of $900,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental ... substance use disorder education into the general medical ...

The good news is that the government, through the Ministry of Education and the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Nacada), has developed guidelines for alcohol ...

Schools can implement comprehensive prevention programs that include substance abuse education, peer support groups, and ...

Former One Direction musician Liam Payne died due to multiple traumas and internal and external bleeding caused by a fall, an Argentine prosecutors' office said on Thursday, revealing the first ...