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Hoarding in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJye3RhDM4[/embedyt] Many of us have seen the television shows depicting homes filled from floor to ceiling with newspapers, garbage, and ‘things’. The images of rotten food, dead vermin, and insect infestations fill many of us with shock, horror, confusion, and sadness. How did this happen? Why won’t the person

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Medicinal Cannabis: A Therapeutic Alternative for Management of Chronic Pain in Older Australians by Leah Bisiani MHlthSc., Dip Bus., RN1., Dementia Consultant

DISCLAIMER: This article is not advocating medicating people living with dementia with cannabis, but is only considering the utilisation of medicinal cannabis for chronic intractable pain in our older population. Pain has been described as a fundamental and universal human experience, and thus access to effective pain relief should be

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Mental Health
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Mental Illness in African American Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svb14fgSXQ[/embedyt] We know that mental illness/disorders do not discriminate based on race, colour, age, socioeconomic status, gender or identity. Anyone can experience a mental illness/disorder; however, minority communities such as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans to name a few, usually experience more severe forms of mental

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