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Black Mental Health Matters: Stressors and Stigma About Mental Health Among African-Americans

With the pandemic still surging at home and abroad, and with lockdowns regulated off and on for the past year, one thing that is apparent. It is that dealing with mental health issues in a constructive way is paramount to living a balanced lifestyle in a rather unbalanced time. There is one group of Americans …

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is PTSD permanent or is it curable?

Experiencing upsetting things is common while we are living. Additionally, there will be things or situations that will affect us tremendously and make us experience heightened emotions like shock, anger, fear, etc. In Psychology, this is often called trauma or the emotional response we develop to address terrible events like accidents, death of a loved …

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Crack Cocaine Addiction Symptoms and Warning Signs

Crack cocaine and cocaine powder have similar effects. According to drugpolicy.org, these two are pharmacologically identical, meaning they are chemically nearly identical. Therefore, they have the same impact. Their only difference is the way we take them. A person uses powder cocaine by either swallowing, injecting, or snorting it; on the other hand, a user …

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Drug Addiction as a Disease

Drug addiction is a chronic disease that involves compulsive drug seeking and using, despite its negative physical, emotional, and mental consequences in the body.  We also consider drug addiction a brain disorder because it can rewire the brain’s functions and structure. Most drugs affect a person’s “reward system” causing euphoria and stimulating the brain’s dopamine …

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