| Mental Health Board Asking For Replacement Levy
The executive director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board met with Muskingum County commissioners today to ask them to put a replacement levy on the March ballot.
The levy would be a 10 year levy and would replace the levy the board has had for the past 20 years.
�For somebody who owns a $50,000 home tax value wise it would be the difference between right now
they're paying a little over $11 a year, it'd go to $17 a year,� said Rod Hollingsworth, executive director.
Hollingsworth said they are going to work harder this election to inform voters about the services they provide.
�The Mental Health Board is basically an administrative oversight board and funding board and we provide services through Six County, Thompkins Child and Adolescent and Muskingum Behavioral Health Services and that includes mental health services and drug and alcohol services,� he said.
Owning up a relief
BEN Cousins has been urged to tell all about his drug use and depression when he fronts the AFL Commission today. Cousins' family and friends hoping it will benefit his health. Mental health experts say coming clean can lift a huge weight off the shoulders of those suffering depression, as evidenced by rugby league great Andrew Johns' recent admissions. Johns said his sense of well-being had soared since coming clean about his battle with depression and drug use throughout his career. The former Australian captain feels he has turned his life around and hopes his story will help teenagers reluctant to talk about issues they face. Johns stunned the rugby league world in August when he admitted to long-term drug and alcohol abuse and a struggle with depression and bipolar disorder.
Study finds that veterans are a quarter of the homeless
WASHINGTON � Lonnie Bowen Jr. was once a social worker, but for 17 years the Vietnam war veteran has slept on the streets off and on as he�s battled substance abuse and mental health problems.
�It�s been a hard struggle,� said Bowen, 62, as he rolled a cigarette outside a homeless processing center in downtown Philadelphia, where he planned to seek help for his drug and alcohol problem, as he has before.
Every night, hundreds of thousands of veterans like Bowen are without a home.
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit.
And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans.
Waianae Mental Health center gets $100,000 grant
Hale Na`au Pono (Wai`anae Coast Community Mental Health Center) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to support Ho`okaulike (Creating Balance), an alcohol and drug treatment program with substantial native Hawaiian cultural values. OHA's contribution will help open services to 100 more Native Hawaiians and their families along the Wai'anae Coast, health center officials said. They said many Native Hawaiians who have followed a path of substance abuse are without adequate cultural anchors upon which they can bring about adequate individual or family recovery. Through the support of contributions like that of OHA, Hale Na`au Pono's Ho`okaulike program can now provide outpatient substance abuse services to Native Hawaiian men and women 18 years and older without resources to cover the cost of such services.
Study: Depressed Young Adults Abuse Substances More
WASHINGTON (Cox News Service) -- Young adults with depression are more likely to start smoking cigarettes, use illicit drugs, and abuse alcohol and pain medication than their peers, according to a study released Thursday. In the past year, 3 million young adults in the United States have suffered one or more major depressive episodes, according to the study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The study found that these depressed young adults were 60 percent more likely to have started smoking cigarettes than others in their age group who had not experienced depression. Similarly, they were twice as likely to have used illicit drugs than other young adults. "Too often people turn to cigarettes or other substances to try to deal with depression, creating a 'double jeopardy' for the health and well-being of the individual," said Dr.
Alcohol, drug abuse likely by depressed
WASHINGTON -- Young adults with depression are more likely to start smoking cigarettes, use illicit drugs and abuse alcohol and pain medication than their peers, according to a study released today. In the past year, 3 million young adults in the United States have suffered one or more major depressive episodes, according to the study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The study found that these depressed young adults were 60 percent more likely to have started smoking cigarettes than others in their age group who had not experienced depression. .
Study Finds That Veterans Are a Quarter of the Homeless
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lonnie Bowen Jr. was once a social worker, but for 17 years the Vietnam war veteran has slept on the streets off and on as he's battled substance abuse and mental health problems. "It's been a hard struggle," said Bowen, 62, as he rolled a cigarette outside a homeless processing center in downtown Philadelphia, where he planned to seek help for his drug and alcohol problem, as he has before. Every night, hundreds of thousands of veterans like Bowen are without a home. Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit. And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans.
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