Mental Health

Gen Z is the Most Alcohol‑Averse Generation

HAPPY DAYS – Mar. 22, 2026 - A growing number of Americans are opting out of having a “beveragino,” with Gen-Z leading the pack on sobriety, according to a new survey by Lending Tree. The report, which surveyed dr... Read More...

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Addiction Linked to Inconsistent Decision-making

AUDIO – MAKE UP YOUR MIND - STOLI or FINLANDA – Mar. 26, 2026 - Scientists have argued that individuals with more severe substance use become less sensitive to negative consequences such as health problems or financi... Read More...

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Self-Love Is the Missing Link in America’s Mental Health and Addiction Crisis

DR. DONNA MARKS – March - 2026 - Rising addiction and mental health challenges worldwide are prompting new questions about what is truly driving the crisis. While many solutions focus on treatment, a growing conversa... Read More...

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How Mental Health Treatment Saved My Life

GRIEF HURTS – March 24, 2026 - Faced with grieving the tragic death of a close friend and bandmate a few years after losing her father, Chris Cornell, mental-health advocate Lily Cornell Silver explains how she turne... Read More...

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Meta and YouTube Guilty

META VERDICT – March 25, 2026 - Meta misled users about the safety of its social apps when it comes to children being targeted by online predators. A day later, a jury in L.A. ruled against Meta and Google’s YouTube ... Read More...

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Rehab Facility That Treats Tech Addiction Like Heroin

BETTER GET MORE BEDS – Mar. 24, 2026 - At age six, Sarah Hill was handed her first iPad by her parents, which she used to play games like Angry Birds and Minecraft whenever she was bored. By age 21, the Alabama nativ... Read More...

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7+ Things You Get from a Good Relationship

STAYING IN LOVE – Mar. 20, 2026 - Upon the rarest of occasions (okay maybe weekly), my wife gets a little tweaked at me. I don’t know what I did, my head is buried in a book or the computer, I’m an innocent by-sitter... Read More...

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New Mexico Will Fund Psychedelic Treatment

HIGH TIMEs – Mar. 17, 2026 - The funding represents a big step forward in the state’s efforts to integrate psychedelic-assisted therapies into its broader behavioral health infrastructure. And the formal allocation o... Read More...

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Cannabis is NOT an effective treatment for mental health conditions!

AIN’T MEDICINE – Mar. 16, 2026 - Researchers concluded there was “very little evidence for its efficacy” in treating anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or opioid use disord... Read More...

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Are psychedelics better than antidepressants? NO!

JUST MORE FUN – Mar. 18, 2026 - Psychedelic-assisted therapy may be no more effective than traditional antidepressants when patients know what drugs they are actually taking, according to a first-of-its kind analysis... Read More...

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Happiness Expert Cracks Code to Long-lasting Joy

INSTANT COFFEE, NOT GRATIFICATION – Mar. 18, 2026 - “Essentially, we want it right now. This has turned the pursuit into a dopamine addiction; a hunt for instant gratification that provides a bit of short-term pleasu... Read More...

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Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better?

AUDIO – THEY ARE MAGICAL – Mar. 13, 2026 - A chemical neuroscientist named David Olson, then a graduate student at Stanford, told me that he encountered these studies and was “struck by the ability of a substance, wi... Read More...

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Lawyers Deliver Closing Arguments in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

Face BOOKED – Mar. 12, 2026 - After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, 12 jurors are listening to closing arguments before decid... Read More...

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People Are Sharing The Body Warnings That Demand Immediate Attention

BE FOREWARNED – Mar. 5, 2026 - While each person may experience unique symptoms for different illnesses, most people develop symptoms that are considered common (e.g., sneezing, coughing, and a runny nose for a cold)... Read More...

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When the Machines Don’t Sleep: Tech Burnout in the Age of AI

WHY SLEEP? – Mar. 5, 2026 - “I am burnt out. All the mental health deteriorating that I used to scoff at is real, miserable, scary, and dangerous.” When OpenAI researcher Hieu Pham shared those words while s... Read More...

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I Turned AI Into My Therapist

AI Therapist – March 4, 2026 - I’m using ChatGPT as a therapist. Nothing says “modern mental health” like crying into a chatbox, after all. Plenty of people are now doing the same – but can it really replace human su... Read More...

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Addiction Affects Your Brain As Well As Your Body

THINK ABOUT IT – Feb. 12, 2026 - Addiction is one of the most common and consequential chronic medical conditions in the United States. Nationwide, more than 46 million people met the criteria for a substance abuse d... Read More...

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TIME’S 100 Health Advocates 2026 – Ryan Hampton

MAN WITH A PLAN – Feb. 11, 2026 -A hiking accident in 2003 almost cost Ryan Hampton his life—not because of the injury he sustained, but because of the addiction he developed to the opioid OxyContin, which was prescr... Read More...

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‘Last Seven Days’: Film explores mental health, warning signs friends shouldn’t ignore

SEE THIS MOVIE – Jan. 29, 2026 - The film tells the story of a military veteran documenting what he believes may be the final week of his life, capturing the highs and lows he experiences along the way. It explores t... Read More...

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A Landmark Social Media Addiction Case Puts Big Tech on Trial

TICK TOCK DIE – Feb. 6, 2026 - ANNALEE SCHOTT USED to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorit... Read More...

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Life Expectancy Hits New High as Deaths From Overdoses Fall

AUDIO – THE ELDERLY ENDURE – Jan. 28, 2026 - The average U.S. life expectancy hit an all-time high in 2024, according to the NCHS data, as the nation continued to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and deaths from dr... Read More...

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How to Turn Anxiety Into Adventure

GOOD QUESTION – 2025 - Recently a friend celebrating a milestone birthday (one signaling that the second half of life was upon her) announced that her new goal was to stop feeling so anxious about everything, and ins... Read More...

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From Mushroom Trip or Cosmic Ride to Therapeutic Healing

UN-STUCK – Jan. 18, 2026 - Today, the key scientific and regulatory question is shifting away from if psilocybin could produce major durable improvements in depression and anxiety—because we’ve already come close to ... Read More...

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Addiction: A Disease Both Like and Unlike Many Others

IT IS AND IT ISN’T – Jan, 20, 2026 - Mental health experts are nearly unanimous in endorsing the disease model of addiction. Alcoholism (now alcohol use disorder) was declared a disease in 1956 by the American Medica... Read More...

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Understanding the Impact of Trauma Among Drug Users

IT’S BIG – Jan. 17, 2026 - Conducted as part of the Review of the Medically Supervised Injecting Room Trial, this study identified high rates of complex trauma that can create barriers to treatment among people... Read More...

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Homeless Veteran Gains Stability and Starts Non-profit to Help Veterans

Call Center for Homeless Veterans 877-424-3838 – Jan. 14, 2026 - Veteran Esther Frias grew up in Los Angeles after her parents immigrated from Mexico. She remembers watching news coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riot... Read More...

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Amanda Seyfried Credits ‘extreme’ OCD with Helping Her Avoid Alcohol & Drugs

MOVIE STAR – Jan. 19, 2026 - The Testament of Ann Lee actress recently opened up about her struggles with the condition during an interview with Vogue, sharing that she was formally diagnosed with “really extreme” ob... Read More...

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Author Sam Quinones on Finding Musical Fulfillment in New Book

AUDIO – MUSIC MATTERS – Jan. 12, 2026 - Journalist Sam Quinones, who chronicled the drug epidemic in his books Dreamland and The Least of Us decided to take a detour in his latest book, and he found it in the tuba se... Read More...

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DIRTY TALK: When I Became Aware of Toxic & Abusive Relationships With TV Shows

NEW EPISODE – Jan. 2026 - In the early 1990s, I was a “lonesome licensed therapist cowboy” from South Florida, driven by a simple mission: to help people heal. I never expected that mission would lead me onto the sta... Read More...

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Science Says Different Psychiatric Disorders May Have SAME CAUSE

NOW WHAT? – Jan. 16, 2026 - A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients, finding that many conditions involve similar genes and m... Read More...

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