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Medical use and misuse of psychoactive prescription medications among US youth and young adults: An Introduction

BMJ

The health risks may even be higher when these prescription medications are laced with other substances to increase their bulk weight or alter their psychoactive effects. Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., 2010 Oct;29(4):417-26.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

But it’s interesting because I started seeing, even though for instance I was working on this much earlier, but I published my large meta-analysis linking this to risk for premature mortality back in my first one in 2010. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then. And then the second one in 2015.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. We also look at their mental health. Keith: Yes.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals.