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988 Contacted More Than 16 Million Times From Its Launch to December 2024

Physician's Weekly

per 1,000 is less than half that of the rate of adult emergency department visits that include a mental health diagnosis (53.0 The highest past-year 988 contact incidence rate was seen in the West, while the lowest was in the South (27.1 per 1,000 population); findings were similar for the past-year estimate of 988 use prevalence (1.8

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Menstrual Cycle Phases May Be Linked to Higher Alcohol Craving, Drinking

Physician's Weekly

Mental health professionals would be able to more accurately assess and understand women experiencing alcohol-related problems. It is also possible that hormone-stabilizing medications could be successful in aiding treatment for alcohol use disorders in women.” ” Abstract No.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

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We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.