Mental Health Awareness Month: B4Stage4
Brad Lamm, CIP Statistics show that many of us start down the road of addiction when we begin to self-medicate undiagnosed anxiety or mental health disorders with drugs, alcohol or food. This May, Mental Health America (MHA) is sponsoring Mental Health Awareness Month, with the goal of bringing awareness to mental illness before the most […]
Safe from Self-Harm
Brad Lamm, CIP Cutting. WebMD calls it a practice that is foreign and frightening to parents and loved ones of those who partake. Although it may seem like it, it is not a suicide attempt. Cutting is a form of self-injury — where a person is literally making small cuts on his or her body, […]
Drugs in the Digital Age
Brad Lamm, CIP Over the last 4 years, the so-called war on drugs has literally ground to a halt as more than 300 different ‘legal highs’ flood the U.S. border. Legal highs are chemical compounds synthesized in labs that stimulate or depress the central nervous system the way that mimics banned substances such as pot, […]
Good Grief: Rage Against the Machine
By Brad Lamm, CIP What do we want to do right when we witness the world go sideways? So many of us dig deep and desire to respond, act and maybe even make a difference. I know, I get that more than many, as I work with families on the brink of crisis, desperate to […]