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Mental health toll of skunk cannabis: Number of users admitted to hospital after smoking drug soars 50% in three years

Growing numbers of cannabis users are needing hospital treatment for ‘mental disorders’ after smoking super-strength skunk, drugs campaigners warned last night.

In just three years, the number admitted for treatment has increased by 50 per cent - as the chemically enhanced danger drug has flooded the streets.

Last night drugs campaigners warned young people were severely damaging their mental health, and blamed permissive policing, including the use of cautions and spot fines.

Mary Brett, a trustee of Cannabis

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19 | 06 | 2013
 Depression treatments ‘can extend life’

Researchers have shown for the first time in a randomised trial that treatment for major depression can reduce overall mortality rates in older patients.

The study

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19 | 06 | 2013
Anorexia Becoming An Unnoticed Epidemic Among Teen Boys

A disturbing new trend in teenagers contradicts the popular assumption that eating

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19 | 06 | 2013
Where is your mind when you’re cooking?

Where is your mind when you’re cooking? Is it busy planning tomorrow’s schedule as the knife moves closer and closer towards your fingers along the length of a carrot? Is the mind still

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19 | 06 | 2013
What makes us finally get help?

It is hard to know when it is time to seek psychiatric help.  Especially when we’re not sure what is wrong, or what went wrong. My first attempt to get help for chronic hypo mania was

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19 | 06 | 2013
How to Respond to Insensitive Remarks about Mental Illness

Julie A. Fast once told her dad that she disliked being single but felt like it was the best option at the time.

“I just get

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18 | 06 | 2013
Top 5 TV shows that deal with mental health

Mental illness is having quite the year on the small and big screens. The stereotypical images of straitjackets and Frankenstein-inspired psychiatric procedures have been replaced by very

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18 | 06 | 2013
Sibling fights over toys could lead to mental health problems in later life, says study

Sibling arguments are often dismissed as part of growing up, but a new study suggests that fights between brothers and sisters could be linked to mental

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18 | 06 | 2013
Psychiatric disorders linked to a protein involved in the formation of long-term memories

Virginia Tech scientists find psychiatric disorders may be linked to protein involved in memory formation

Researchers have discovered a pathway by which the brain

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18 | 06 | 2013
 Treatment centre for soldiers is approved

Plans to turn a historic country hall and estate into a £300 million rehabilitation centre for injured soldiers have received planning authority backing.

Stanford Hall and its 360-

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18 | 06 | 2013
Normal or Not? When Temper Tantrums Become a Disorder

Editor's Note: With the release of the latest edition of the mental health manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM),

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17 | 06 | 2013