via behavioral forensics - Google Blog Search by Mike Nova on 6/9/12
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via CorrectionsOne Daily News on 6/20/12
The Associated Press NEW YORK — A woman arrested by New York police in August as her nude body was being painted by an artist in Times Square has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city. The lawsuit was filed by Zoe West on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. It seeks unspecified damages. West alleges she was arrested in violation of her rights while being painted by Andy Golub. The 22-year-old ...
via NYT > Crime and Criminals by By ROCKY CASALE on 6/19/12
As the Mexican authorities and urban planners work to clean up some of the country's most polluted and crime-riddled urban areas, the southern city of Villahermosa is showing how it can be done.
via prison gangs - Google News on 6/20/12
Prison officials challenged to eradicate gangs, contraband, from ...
Bahama Islands Info (blog) NASSAU, Bahamas -- No effort should be spared in eradicating organised gangs from the penal system, Minister of National Security, Dr. the Hon.... and more » |
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Norwegian killer slams court for sanity focus
Kansas City Star Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik slammed the court Tuesday, saying his trial was centering too much on his mental state and not enough on ... |
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Prosecutors prepare for closing arguments in Norway killer Anders ...
Washington Post ... killer's own account of one of the worst peacetime massacres in modern history, it's time for prosecutors to make a call: Is Anders Behring Breivik insane or not? Norway to rename Bomb island near Breivik killingsReuters Psychiatrists: Breivik was sane during Norway attacksChristian Science Monitor Insane or not? Decision-time in Breivik trialThe Seattle Times Fox News all 255 news articles » |
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Egyptians anxiously awaited the outcome of last weekend's presidential runoff and more clarity about the deteriorating health of ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday.
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Addiction Expert on Nick Stahl's Rehab Exit
Monsters and Critics.com Actor Nick Stahl, who appeared in Terminator: Rise of the Machines, is reportedly missing . 'Terminator 3' Actor Nick Stahl Leaves Rehab Against Doctors' Advice!Hollywire all 165 news articles » |
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Former Quarterback Ryan Leaf Sentenced to Addiction Treatment
New York Times The former N.F.L. quarterback Ryan Leaf was sentenced to nine months of lockdown addiction treatment after pleading guilty to breaking into a house and ... Ryan Leaf sentenced to treatmentESPN Ryan Leaf's five-year sentence starts with addiction treatmentNBCSports.com Ryan Leaf Sentenced Seven Years, Will Receive Drug Addiction ...SB Nation Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog) -Great Falls Tribune all 142 news articles » |
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via addiction - Google News on 6/20/12
Heroin addict thanks federal judge for jail sentence
Knoxville News Sentinel George Kalopitas bit the hand that fed him judicial mercy seven years ago, and now he's headed to federal prison for five years. |
via addiction - Google News on 6/20/12
Distinguished Sex, Porn and Relationship Addiction Experts Robert ...
PR Web (press release) On July 13, 2012, Elements Behavioral Health will host a unique professional training featuring leading sex/tech, addiction and relationship experts Robert ... and more » |
via addiction - Google Blog Search by Bill Ford on 6/15/12
She is a medical doctor with residency in psychiatry and passion for addiction science. Nora is committed to unlocking the mystery of addiction. In 2003, She was appointed the Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, ...
via Sciences Indexed Since 1998 on 6/20/12
While help-seeking and treatment preferences for depression have been assessed in a number of population studies, little is known about the public’s self-help beliefs. To explore public beliefs about self-help actions to be taken in case of depression. In spring 29, a population-based s...
via Sciences Indexed Since 1998 on 6/20/12
<sec id="section1-2764113994">Assessing attachment style in people with schizophrenia may be important to identify a risk factor in building a strong therapeutic relationship and so indirectly to understand the development of mal-compliance as one of the major obstacles in the treatment of ...
via Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel, Joseph T. Sakai, Christian Thurstone, Robin Corley, Christian Hopfer on 5/28/12
Objective: To assess the prevalence and frequency of medical marijuana diversion and use among adolescents in substance abuse treatment and to identify factors related to their medical marijuana use. Method: This study calculated the prevalence and frequency of diverted medical marijuana use among adolescents (n = 164), ages 14–18 years (mean age = 16.09, SD = 1.12), in substance abuse treatment in the Denver metropolitan area. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were completed to determine factors related to adolescents' use of medical marijuana. Results: Approximately 74% of the adolescents had used someone else's medical marijuana, and they reported using diverted medical marijuana a median of 50 times. After adjusting for gender and race/ethnicity, adolescents who used medical marijuana had an earlier age of regular marijuana use, more marijuana abuse and dependence symptoms, and more conduct disorder symptoms compared with those who did not use medical marijuana. Conclusions: Medical marijuana use among adolescent patients in substance abuse treatment is very common, implying substantial diversion from registered users. These results support the need for policy changes that protect against diversion of medical marijuana and reduce adolescent access to diverted medical marijuana. Future studies should examine patterns of medical marijuana diversion and use in general population adolescents.
via Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Stacy S. Drury on 7/1/12
At the start [the child] absolutely needs to live in a circle of love and strength (with consequent tolerance) if he is not to be too fearful of his own thoughts and of his imaginings to make progress in his emotional development.—Donald Winnicott
via Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Alessandra N. Kazura on 7/1/12
In the featured article, Salomonsen-Sautel et al. assessed the prevalence and frequency of diverted medical marijuana use in a sample of adolescents recruited for a genetics study at two substance-abuse treatment programs in metropolitan Denver, Colorado. The study idea was stimulated by clinical reports that adolescents were using diverted medical marijuana. Using a simple but scientifically sound design for their study, the investigators hoped to shed light on a potential new threat to adolescent health in a state that was in the first wave to legalize dispensation of marijuana to individuals who registered for medical use after recommendation from a physician. Although their exploratory study has acknowledged limitations, it rises above anecdotal evidence by using a well-defined sample, systematic questioning about medical marijuana experience and risk perception, and assessment of mental health symptoms and disorders with standardized measurements. In the tradition of many important public health discoveries, the investigators made good use of an existing research opportunity to better understand and inform observations made in the treatment setting.
via Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Regina Bussing, Faye A. Gary on 7/1/12
This article describes current United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiatives to end health disparities and outlines suggestions about how child and adolescent psychiatrists can contribute to the Healthy People 2020 goal of achieving “health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups.” In the decade since the Surgeon General's landmark publication, Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, its basic findings of striking disparities for minorities in mental health services have not changed. As shown in the most recent National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, racial and ethnic minorities still have less access to mental health services than whites, and when they receive care, it is more likely to be of poorer quality. Although the exact HHS definitions vary, disparities in health care are in general defined as “racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention” () and consider minority status based on socioeconomic (poverty) or geographic (e.g., rural) status.
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via Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry by Roberto B. Sassi on 7/1/12
There is overwhelming evidence from decades of studies that children abandoned in orphanages and related institutions are at a dramatically higher risk to develop a variety of social and behavioral difficulties. The impact of emotional and social deprivation at very young ages and the low quality of caregiving at such institutions are often long lasting and are correlated to the presence of severe psychopathology in these children. However, the mechanisms linking caregiving quality and risk of psychopathology are still not fully understood. In this issue of the Journal, McGoron and colleagues (p. 683) report intriguing findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), the first ever randomized trial of foster care as an intervention for the social deprivation associated with institutionalization in young children. The BEIP study analyzed 136 children 6 to 31 months old at baseline who were randomly assigned to care as usual, i.e., continued institutional placement, or to being transferred to a high-quality foster family. Foster care was nonexistent in Romania in the early 2000s, and the BEIP team indeed created a foster care system designed to facilitate the development of healthy attachment in children. The BEIP findings thus far confirm that children who were placed in foster care developed significantly fewer problems than children in institutional care. However, the precise mechanism responsible for such differences is not clear. Attachment is believed to play a major role in mediating the effects of caregiver quality on childhood psychopathology, and McGoron and colleagues examined the correlations among caregiving quality at 30 months, security of attachment at 42 months, and psychopathology at 54 months. This carefully performed longitudinal study demonstrated that quality of early caregiving experience in these high-risk children is inversely correlated with externalizing and internalizing disorders at an older age. Moreover, higher quality caregiving did associate with more secure attachment, and the attachment quality explained a significant proportion of the variance in psychopathology at an older age. The investigators suggest that interventions focused on developing attachment security in children exposed to caregiving adversity at a very young age can produce long-term benefits and prevent psychopathology.
via Psychiatric News Alert by noreply@blogger.com (Psychiatric News Alert) on 6/20/12
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In his presidential address, Lazarus drew on his experience as a psychiatrist to emphasize the need for unity among physicians in achieving the goals of the AMA, which include health care reform and universal access to care, malpractice liability reform, and reform of the Medicare payment system.
“In the 21st century we can advance and grow only by incorporating the insights of physicians from all specialties, cultures, practice settings, regions and ideologies,” Lazarus said. “There is a real opportunity, regardless of the political paralysis in Washington, for us to unify and promote the practice of medicine to AMA members and nonmember physicians around the country. But any success will materialize only if we are unified on the issues that matter most to us and to our patients.”
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Bill would fix dangerous cracks in Kendra's Law
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via BMC Psychiatry - Latest Articles by Maria Elena Cinti on 6/19/12
Background: This is an update of a previous meta-analysis published in 2005. Methods: It includes the data published up to march 2010 for a total of 247 papers and 18,300 cases. Cognitive deficits are examined in 5 different domains: Memory functioning (128 studies), Global cognitive functioning (131 studies), Language (70 studies), Executive function (67 studies), Attention (76 studies). Only controlled studies were included: patients vs. normal subjects. Results: Results evidence that in all domains and in all different analyses performed within each domain, patients show a significant reduction of cognitive efficiency with respect to normal subjects. The between studies heterogeneity is very high in almost all domains. There are various sources of this heterogeneity (age, sex, sample size, type of patients, and type of measurement) which contribute to the high degree of not-overlapping information offered by the single studies. Conclusions: Our results, based on the current scientific evidence, confirm the previous findings that there is a generalized impairment of various cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia when compared to normal cases. The modalities with which these results are obtained have not changed over the years and the more recent studies do not modify the high heterogeneity previously found between the studies. This reduces the methodological quality of the results. In order to improve the methodological quality of the studies performed in the field of cognitive deficits of patients with schizophrenia, various factors should be taken into account and better managed in designing future studies.
via NO v. Breivik :: Uncensored by Andrea Muhrrteyn on 6/19/12
Breivik's Correspondence to Russian Nationalists to setup a Pan-European Prison Support Network for ethnic and cultural protectionism
This is why I have spent so much time contributing to create a new ideology, national conservatism. Ethnic and cultural protectionism is the core of this ideology.
Andrea Muhrrteyn | Nicola & RusImperia.Info | 17 June 2012
As for Europe, it is a big problem in western Europe that muslims are dominating in many prisons, especially in France where approximately 70% of the prisoners are Muslim. Many European prisoners are even forcefully converted to Islam against their will, or have had to convert to Islam to stay alive. Other prisoners in a couple of countries are forced to eat halal meat because the prison authorities has decided that serving this is "more economical". Of course this is completely unacceptable. My brother in Denmark has a prize on his head set by muslims so he and other ethnic Danes have been segregated in one wing of the prison in order to prevent violence. you are of course aware of many of these problems and they will increase the next decade because Europe is slowly being drowned to death by especially Islamic Asians and African immigrants.
So yes, my goal is to develop a pan-European prison network consisting of European patriotic martyrs and other politically orientated prisoners. The goal should be to develop a fully operational support organisation for European patriotic martyrs.
Breivik's Correspondence to Russian Nationalists to setup a Pan-European Prison Support Network & detailing the core of national conservatism: ethnic and cultural protectionism
Anders Breivik approved the nomination of Nicholas (Николы Королёва), as head of the department of his organization in Russia, the website DPNI.org. Previously, Breivik said that would create a pan-European network of right-wing radicals of the prisoners by the nationalists in Russia.
Apparently, the Russian representative organizations will be created by Korolev before the Association of White prisoners. Recall that the board of the Association to date, includes representatives of the radical terrorist groups, such as: SPAS, ABTO, VAT-north, and others.
The primary objective of the organization - is providing mutual support among imprisoned nationalists. In the near future the site will earn the Association.
The following is a translation of a letter from Anders Breivik (in a slight reduction) and a photocopy of the original.************
Dear colleagues from Russia!
Dear Russian brother!
It is true that I am working to create a pan-European prison network. Im in the process of contacting Beate Zschäpe in Germany (she Mundlos Uwe, Uwe Bonhardt NSP created a group, the nationalist underground, which wiped out 12 people from 2002 to 2011) and Peter Mangs in Sweden (who shot 10, killing 1 maybe 3 in Malmo) among several others. Beate and Peter have not been convicted yet so I doubt I will hear from them until after their trial is done, due to the fact that they are both pleading innocent.
I'm already in contact with a couple of Norwegians and a patriotic brother in Denmark. This is a slow process for me as I haven't had much time yet for corresponding due to several critical issues. One positive thing with my case though is that the massive media coverage have resulted in several hundred letters from patriots from more than 24 countries, which has enabled me to get in contact with key individuals across the world. This will make the job of creating the network easier for sure, and I am willing to forward contact details as soon as I have gained permission from them to do so ;-)
I have fought very hard to de-legitimize the first fake psychiatric report and this struggle has taken a lot of time. I have also had to prepare for the ongoing trial that started April 16th and will last until July 20th. After that I will have much more time to spend on the patriotic prison network. I estimate that there are at least up to 3000 patriotic prisoners in western-Europe who will be interested to join but it will take years of work to organize them and unite them all, but this will go much faster if we can work together effectively, and share contact addresses, and recruiting more leaders who are fluent in English and willing to network. I am sorry to hear that your regime disallows contact between prisoners. That is unfortunately an extremely effective and a very crippling policy (;-(). I'm glad you have found a way to bypass this.
As for Europe, it is a big problem in western Europe that muslims are dominating in many prisons, especially in France where approximately 70% of the prisoners are Muslim. Many European prisoners are even forcefully converted to Islam against their will, or have had to convert to Islam to stay alive. Other prisoners in a couple of countries are forced to eat halal meat because the prison authorities has decided that serving this is "more economical". Of course this is completely unacceptable. My brother in Denmark has a prize on his head set by muslims so he and other ethnic Danes have been segregated in one wing of the prison in order to prevent violence. you are of course aware of many of these problems and they will increase the next decade because Europe is slowly being drowned to death by especially Islamic Asians and African immigrants.
So yes, my goal is to develop a pan-European prison network consisting of European patriotic martyrs and other politically orientated prisoners. The goal should be to develop a fully operational support organisation for European patriotic martyrs.
The long term goals of the network/organisation should be to provide the following to our brothers: 1. Creating a brotherhood in several prisons in Europe, which should offer protection against muslim attacks in prisons. 2. To educate our brothers and sisters - focus on general education, to learn english (for cross border communication) and essay writing skills. The pen is in fact just as powerfula s the sword. The last goal of the organisation should be to attempt to create an economical fundament to support the wives and children of our martyrs.
