Mental & Behavioral Health

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Flip the Page, Protect Your Health

Fellow Farah Nimeri

Who Gets to Sleep?

Fellow Edward Alexander

Boredom? Think Motivation

Fellow Farah Nimeri

Naloxone, Needles, and the Neighborhood: When Evidence Meets Values In the Opioid Crisis

Guest Author Brandon Huynh

AI-Generated Depression

Fellow Rylie Lillibridge

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04.12.2018 Young boy looking sad

What Makes Youth More Likely to Be Bullied?

Children who are bullied are at higher risk for negative consequences. A recent study by Sugimura and colleagues explored whether early social behaviors in school make youth more likely to be bullied and remain bullied over time.

Guest Author Niwako Sugimura

04.05.2018 a garden with a chair and plants

Gardens Offer Refuge to Refugees

Arrive Ministries, a faith-based refugee referral agency, knew that many of their clients were farmers in their home countries, so they piloted a program that converted church lawns into community gardens.

Guest Authors Kari Hartwig, Meghan Mason

03.28.2018 a person smoking a vaporizer

What E-Cigarettes Mean For Teens

Over 500,000 middle schoolers and over 1.6 million high school students currently used electronic cigarettes. E-cigarettes are considered a safer alternative than cigarettes, but "safer" does not mean "safe," especially for teenagers.

Guest Author Jacqueline Rocheleau

03.19.2018 a person sitting on a bench

Local Health Departments Prevent Hospitalizations

Local health departments are well-suited to engage individuals with mental illness due to their low-cost services, high visibility, health promotion activities, and strong community partnerships.

Guest Author Deanna Barath

03.09.2018 A shot glass of liquor

Alcohol Policies and Alcohol-Involved Homicides

Acute intoxication impairs judgment and makes individuals more vulnerable to becoming victims in homicides. A recent study by Naimi et al. finds that more restrictive alcohol policies could have a preventive impact on alcohol-involved homicides.

Guest Author Ziming Xuan

03.07.2018 Shari Rudavsky

Shari Rudavsky

PHP sat down with Shari Rudavsky, health and medicine reporter for the Indianapolis Star, where she has reported on Indiana’s important public health issues, including the recent HIV outbreak and the opioid crisis.

Guest Author Jacqueline Rocheleau

03.06.2018 a person in a helicopter

How Helpful is Anger when Soldiers Return from Combat?

When they return from combat, do soldiers think anger helped them perform their duties?

Guest Author Amy B. Adler

03.01.2018 Sally Satel

Sally Satel on the Opioid Epidemic

Public Health Post sat down with Dr. Sally Satel, practicing psychiatrist at the Partners in Drug Abuse Rehabilitation and Counseling Clinic in Washington, D.C., to discuss the opioid epidemic.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

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