Fentanyl is a killer drug in 50% of opioid overdoses.
Fentanyl is 10 times more powerful than heroin. Gets mixed into street heroin and kills users by unintentional overdoses. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

What is the importance of mentalizing in attachment informed psychotherapy?
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Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

Fentanyl is a killer drug in 50% of opioid overdoses.
Fentanyl is 10 times more powerful than heroin. Gets mixed into street heroin and kills users by unintentional overdoses. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

What is the importance of mentalizing in attachment informed psychotherapy?
In psychotherapy, the activity of "mentalizing" is where the most benefit accrues.  "Mentalizing" is the making sense of things. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. This examining, to which Socrates refers, is what contemporary psychologists call "mentalizing."Mentalizing is intimately linked to self understanding, the understanding of others, a sense of agency, and enhancement of social skills.Mentalizing is a key feature of emotional intelligence which is made up of self knowledge, self regulation, empathy, motivation, and constructive and satisfying interactions with others.In the model of narrat...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

Fentanyl is a killer drug in 50% of opioid overdoses.
Fentanyl is 10 times more powerful than heroin. Gets mixed into street heroin and kills users by unintentional overdoses. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

What is the importance of mentalizing in attachment informed psychotherapy?
In psychotherapy, the activity of "mentalizing" is where the most benefit accrues.  "Mentalizing" is the making sense of things. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. This examining, to which Socrates refers, is what contemporary psychologists call "mentalizing."Mentalizing is intimately linked to self understanding, the understanding of others, a sense of agency, and enhancement of social skills.Mentalizing is a key feature of emotional intelligence which is made up of self knowledge, self regulation, empathy, motivation, and constructive and satisfying interactions with others.In the model of narrat...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 30, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

SNAP (Food stamps) works
Congress just cut back on SNAP and instituted work requirements. But what about people who are already working and not making a living wage? America can afford a safety net to maintain people ' s dignity. We owe it to one another. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

SNAP (Food stamps) works
Congress just cut back on SNAP and instituted work requirements. But what about people who are already working and not making a living wage? America can afford a safety net to maintain people's dignity. We owe it to one another. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 29, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

Attachment In Therapeutic Practice
I just finished Attachment In Therapeutic Practice by Jeremy Holmes and Arietta Slade. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 28, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

Attachment In Therapeutic Practice
I just finished Attachment In Therapeutic Practice by Jeremy Holmes and Arietta Slade. Attachment In Therapeutic Practice is about attachment theory and how this understanding of human development and behavior can be used in psychotherapeutic practice. Even with 49 years of experience in the mental health field as a Psychiatric Social Worker, I am still learning more every day. Many of the ideas that Holmes and Slade describe I have been familiar with, and their way of connecting the dots is very helpful.A human beings attachment style gets set in the first two years of life and is determined by a number of factors. The p...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 28, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

Coffee is good for you.
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Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs

Coffee is good for you.
THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is not only safe for most people, it might protect against heart disease or an early death, a new review suggests.The finding, which applies to so-called "moderate" coffee drinking, stems from a review of more than 200 previous studies.For moreclick here.Other studies have found that people who drink moderate amounts of coffee report less depression. (Source: Markham's Behavioral Health)
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - June 27, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs