A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded study published online in Lancet reveals that the five most common disorders—autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disease, schizophrenia, and major depression — all share similar genetic components.

"These disorders that we thought of as quite different may not have...

By Guest Opinion

Published: February 25, 2013 at 9:55 pm

Since the 2012 election, national news coverage about marijuana has focused almost solely on the states of Colorado and Washington, creating the impression the country is moving toward legalization. But anti-marijuana forces actually won most of the contests in 2012 and in 2010, and lost only when outspent by large margins.

So if the Arizona Legislature refers Proposition 203 back to the voters...

By Chris Baumgartner, Program Director

Drug overdose deaths, due mostly to the misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, are the leading cause of accidental death in Washington. In response, the Washington State Department of Health recently established several prevention initiatives including a Prescription Monitoring Program.

The program collects information on the purchases of pain medications and other potentially dangerous medicines from...

By Melodie Pazolt, DBHR

A new statewide housing locator service is being launched in Washington State.  Please see the email below that describes the introduction to this new resource and the information about the upcoming webinar.  I am disseminating this information to various distribution lists intended to educate agencies, counties, RSNs, and interested stakeholders about this new project.  If you would like to be removed from this distribution list, please let me...

Middle school students from small towns and rural communities who received any of three community-based prevention programs were less likely to abuse prescription medications in late adolescence and young adulthood.

“Prescription medications are beneficial when used as prescribed to treat pain, anxiety, or ADHD,” said NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow. “However, their abuse can have serious consequences, including addiction or even death from overdose. We are...

How can we start paying for things that make people healthier, instead of just treating them when they get sick? The Affordable Care Act has helped catalyze an explosion of ideas about how to expand access to healthcare and control costs. We know that community prevention—changing the social and physical environments of communities to keep people healthy in the first place—can go a long way. In...

By Join Together Staff

The maker of the sweet alcoholic drink Four Loko will put an "alcohol facts panel" on the back of cans containing more than two servings of alcohol, to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) charges of deceptive marketing.

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