Drug overdose is now a leading cause of death in this country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It is also a public health crisis that has left families in grief, decimated whole communities, and prompted an urgent nationwide search for solutions. Dr. Albert Castellon, M.D., has devoted much of his ... Read More
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The Science Behind the Overdose Dangers of Relapse, From an Expert
What It’s Like to Respond to an Overdose Emergency
Trigger Warning: This article contains language about overdose that could be triggering for some people. The overdose epidemic in this country has continued to outpace itself. Drug overdose deaths, most of which were opioid-related, hit a new high in 2022. For every one of these 109,000 deaths, there were many ... Read More
Critical Stress Debriefings: An Expert’s Take
Critical stress debriefings, a preventative intervention after exposure to trauma, have grown in use among police and fire departments across the country. That may be because it is now widely known that when regular exposure to trauma goes unaddressed, that can lead to mental health issues like depression and PTSD, ... Read More
Mental Health in Combat Sports: An Interview with an Expert
“I used to be the guy I hate now,” JC Santana joked. Santana, who founded the Florida-based Institute of Human Performance in 2001, was describing his earlier self as a young combat athlete. “I was that kid in his 20s and 30s who thought, ‘The more you hurt me, the more I like it,’” he said, in a recent interview with ... Read More
Generational Differences in Approaching Mental Health
Perspectives on mental health can vary across generations, sometimes dramatically so, and these differences are not always transparent. For help decoding the different ways that generations perceive mental health issues, we reached out to FHE Health’s director of dialectical behavior therapy, Arielle Kanitz, LCSW, ... Read More
Learning to Take on More Responsibility After Rehab
Years before Zack Traynor was Director of Admissions at FHE Health, he was fresh out of rehab, new to recovery, and trying to discern short-term versus long-term goals. Questions of responsibility loomed large, as they do for so many in this critical first year of sobriety: Which responsibilities should come ... Read More
Recreational Therapy: What Are Its Benefits in Rehab?
“Can you provide a definition of recreational therapy?” We were talking to Adam Lazarus. Lazarus is the recreational therapist at FHE Health and had agreed to be interviewed as part of our expert interview series. “Recreational therapy is a way to utilize recreation to help clients find purpose, meaning and joy in ... Read More
What Experts Say About the Importance of Community to Mental Health
In what ways is community valuable to mental health? Conversely, how are social isolation and loneliness harmful to a person’s psychological wellbeing? Questions like these have prompted a flurry of study in the last decade by major research institutions across the country. What scientists have found is that, whereas ... Read More