Domestic Violence Is Not Only on the Rise, It Is Pandemic

Domestic violence is not only on the rise, it is pandemic

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WASHINGTON, May 21, 2013 – Staggering statistics from the United States Office on Violence against Women (OVW) claim a woman is assaulted or beaten every nine seconds. Domestic … The type of people who commit abuse are jealous, controlling, keep the …
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Life expectancy gap widens between those with mental illness and general …

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The researchers compared life expectancy in the cohort of psychiatric patients with life expectancy at birth for the total Western Australia population (published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics). There were 292,585 … Substance abuse is a well …
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Levin appointed first openly gay head of APA

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Levin, a psychiatrist with roots in substance abuse treatment, is the first openly gay person to hold this position. … In the 70s, the APA removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of …
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