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Archive for category: Worker Wellness News

Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights February 26

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of February 26, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from the failure of the US War on Drugs to how a “phone call” can help cure loneliness to stories on the links between depression & inflammation as well as exercise & pain. Today, I wish to shed some light on the podcast touching on the Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights’ Leaders. As Black History Month soon comes to a close it would be remiss on my part not to share such an impactful this piece. It reminded me that NONE of us are self-made! Most of us have had people in our lives who have been there to support & guide us through the good times and bad times during this journey we call life. PLEASE find 50 minutes during this coming week to listen to these three moving stories. You will NOT be disappointed!

 

Source: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-radio-hour/id523121474?i=1000597760729

 

On the USA losing the Drug War

Harm reduction in the USA

 

US resistance to effective treatments

 

More on harm reduction

 

Fentanyl / Smuggling / Mexico Border

 

Mexico / Law / Bribery

 

Emojis / Kids / Drugs

 

MH & 988 progress

 

Girls & Sadness: What parents should know

 

College / Discrimination / Depression

 

Depression & Inflammation

 

Are you at risk for loneliness?

 

A Loneliness Cure: The Phone Call?

 

When is best time to exercise?

 

Exercise & Pain

 

Lower back pain?

 

IBS & Anxiety/Depression/Suicide

 

Running out of time?

 

Slowing time down?

 

On “saving” others

 

Update: US COVID Death Toll

 

COVID & Kids’ Learning Loss

 

A School Counselor & Kids’ Anxiety

 

Spirituality & Well-being

 

Benefits of Music Therapy

 

MH Workforce Shortage

 

HC Apprenticeships

 

Labor’s Spring Rising

NLRB & Severance Packages

 

Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights’ Leaders

 

Seattle & Banning Caste

 

Happiness & Work

 

Tailoring benefits to the employee’s needs?

 

MH in the Workplace

 

MH & Better Managers = Better Workers

 

The 4-day Workweek?

 

Tracking your brain @ work?

 

Does implicit bias training work?

 

Men’s Soccer joins AFL-CIO

 

MLS Union / FIFA & Concussion Subs?

 

Female athletes / Head injuries / Suicide

 

 

Upcoming webinars:

https://www.slcl.org/content/virtual-program-compassion-fatigue

 

https://www.slcl.org/content/virtual-program-chair-yoga

 

February 28, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights February 20

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of February 19, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from emergency rooms not being able to adequately accommodate children with Mental Health issues to one’s Mental Health following a stroke to a history of head injuries in sports. Today, I wish to shed some light on the articles touching on the increase in sadness being experienced by teen girls, the state of worker wellness, and how peer support is being provided by college students. There is no doubt that COVID has raised the level of awareness when it comes to Mental Health and somewhat lowered the stigma that surrounds this once taboo topic…with this comes an increase in reporting mental health issues. It is no secret that the US is confronted with a shortage of Mental Health professionals. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to step up and help solve this dilemma. One approach would be to increase the number of para-professionals known as Peer Supporters. This model is being utilized in a number of venues (i.e., OUD/SUD rehab, schools, remote villages, etc.) across the world and showing some success. After all, if you needed help who would you rather speak to…a peer with lived experience OR a person you never met before with no connections to your way of life?

 

Sources: www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-experiencing-record-levels-of-sadness-and-suicide-risk-cdc-says-b30b7e8e

www.constructforstl.org/dodge-interviews-mo-afl-cios-dr-john-gaal-on-the-state-of-worker-wellness/

www.wsj.com/articles/with-therapists-in-short-supply-college-students-counsel-each-other-b9cb5eb2

Teen girls & Sadness (1)

 

Teen girls & Sadness (2)

 

ERs failing / Kids / MH

 

Doctors / Kids / MH

 

Doctors / Infants / Financial Literacy

 

MH / Stigma / Politics (1)

 

MH / Stigma / Politics (2)

 

Depression after Stroke? (1)

 

Depression after Stroke? (2)

 

Hypnosis & MH

 

Moral Injury & MH

 

Men / ODs / Trades

 

Gun violence & MH

 

Ohio & Opioids Settlement

 

Exercise & Energy

 

Is rejection good for you?

 

Mice & Male Contraceptives

 

The Love Languages

 

Dating & Therapy Speak

 

Teens & Driving?

 

Win or Learn vs Win or Lose

 

Vapes on Planes?

 

Update: Fentanyl & Mexico

 

Child labor & Meatpacking

 

Chinese retirees protest

 

Railroads & Lack of safety

 

State of worker wellness

 

High paying jobs: No degree required

 

College students & Peer support

 

Training vs Learning

 

coNFLicts of interest

 

History of head injuries in sports

 

 

Upcoming webinar:

Managing pain: The tale of 2 surgeries

 

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

February 20, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights February 13

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of February 12, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from providing more Mental Health assistance to children in ERs to why women continue to leave the workforce to the risks of Magic Mushrooms. Today, I wish to shed some light on the article touching on the possible repeal of child labor laws. With a >35% increase of child labor law violations in 2022, this is not an issue to take lightly…worker shortage or not! We are not merely talking about kids working more than the allotted hours in a given week in the “safe” confines of your local grocery store. In fact, a number of these abuses stem from reports at suppliers to foreign car plants (mostly located in the south). As a lifelong advocate of Career & Technical Education, I can attest that the majority of these schemes over that past +4 decades have less to do about the virtues of work-based learning and more to do about sourcing another form of cheap labor…at the cost of worker safety, in general…and our children’s futures, in specific!

 

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/11/us-child-labor-laws-violations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

988 Guide for Schools

 

More govt funding for MH?

 

Deadly Fentanyl Wave

 

How to be happier?

 

Are Trigger Warnings working?

 

MH / Obesity / Isolation / College & COVID

 

Sailors / Nukes / MH

 

Setting boundaries

 

Microdosing & Mushrooms

 

Ketamine & Mushrooms: Risks

Vets / Ketamine & Therapy

Kids / Crisis / ER v Home

 

COVID / Food scarcity & College

 

Athletes & Personal Reporting

 

Women / Workforce / Health Inequalities

Co-workers & Well-being

 

On falling asleep

Syncing moods & Sex

 

Porn & Sex Addiction

 

Mixed handedness

 

Having it all v Falling apart

 

US Secretary of Labor’s next move?

The dangers of tweaking US child labor laws in 2023

 

Resenteeism

 

Learning to say NO

 

Women in construction

Productivity v Safety?

 

Navigating Rec Marijuana in MO

 

STL Co Jail & College

 

Kids / Concussions / Sports

 

UPDATE: CTE found in 92% of former NFL players

 

Upcoming webinar, etc.:

A tale of 2 surgeries

 

Mental Health in Construction Summit

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

February 13, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights February 6

 

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of January 29, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from workaholism to taking care of your brain to two brothers in Florida creating a pill mill that can be linked to today’s opioids crisis. Today, I wish to shed some light on 2 stories that provide differing perspectives on today’s construction industry. While NYT’s Klein hints at how safety is important on the contemporary job site, he concurrently indicates that this issue—among other factors—has stifled productivity. Interestingly, Klein never tackles the issue of how today’s workforce no longer reflects that of 1970s. To this end, MWI has been leading an effort across the state based on a program developed by the STL construction industry nearly a decade ago: Building Union Diversity (BUD). If you have not listened to the recent St. Louis On The Air piece linked below, please do so…you won’t regret it. I think you will then agree that the vitality of an industrial sector, community, and household are made up of more than one datum point!

 

Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/opinion/economy-construction-productivity-mystery.html?searchResultPosition=1

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2023-01-06/how-one-local-woman-became-an-ironworker-and-is-encouraging-others-to-start-construction-careers

 

 

Lead Safety

 

Amazon & OSHA

 

Well-being for Teens

 

Younger workers & Stress

 

MH breaks & College

Prison & Punishment

 

Workaholism (1)

 

Workaholism (2)

 

Seeking Awe

 

Phoning a friend

 

Youth / Well-being / Phone Calls

 

Surgeon General / Youth / Social Media

 

Stop ruminating!

 

Sleep & Your Brain

Taking a Mind Break

 

Recovery therapy

 

Homelessness (1)

 

Homelessness (2)

 

Homelessness (3)

 

Workplace Supported Recovery

 

Narcan & Vending Machines

 

ADA & SUD

 

Fentanyl & Recovery?

 

Pain & Glial Cells

 

Trauma & Trafficking

 

Outsmarting Gonorrhea?

 

Gaslighting & Narcissism

 

Birds & MH

Black Doulas

 

More on Menopause

 

Seniors & Depression

 

Retiree Romance Scams

 

American Pill Mill

 

Another legend passes on

 

Managers’ impact on MH

Is a 4-year degree necessary?

 

Burnout (1)

 

Burnout (2)

 

BUD’s new leader

 

On construction productivity

 

Youth Soccer & Suicide

 

 

Upcoming webinars:

 

Sports & Concussions Workshop

 

CTE Awareness Month Series

February 7, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 30

 

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of January 30, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from drugs worse than fentanyl to the impact of gun violence on our Mental Health to homelessness issues in STL. Today, I wish to shed some light on 2 remotely related articles. First, the importance of empowering Justice Involved Individuals (JII: recently known as the formerly incarcerated) before they re-enter the community appears to be a strategy that truly refocuses our correctional systems towards rehabilitation vs punishment. Why does this matter? For far too many reasons to list herein…but one for sure is to help address the current worker shortage. Regarding the second article, COVID is now not being seen as a major culprit of today’s lack of workers. A recent study suggests that younger less educated men (Think: no college degree) are not seeking work as they did in the past. To all apprenticeship directors/coordinators looking to fill your ranks, this seems like an issue worth exploring!

 

Sources: https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/connection-hope-purpose-and-empowerment-for-justice-involved-individuals-reentering-the-community

https://www.wsj.com/articles/labor-participation-factors-economy-11674780877

 

Kids / Social media / Drugs

 

Biden / Congress / Opioids

 

Worse than Fentanyl: Nitazene?

 

Xylazine (1)

Xylazine (2)

 

Chronic pain: Opioids v PT

 

Native Americans & Deaths of Despair

 

MH resources for under-represented populations

 

MH & Gun violence

 

MH & Football

 

How to be happier?

 

Rodents & Love

 

Empowering JII

HUD on Homelessness

 

STL & Homeless

 

Train to be positive

 

Why urologists matter

 

Yoga for seniors

 

Selfish Mindfulness?

 

Benefits of Guided Imagery

 

Changes to Medicaid?

 

Worker shortage & COVID?

 

Does a college degree matter?

 

Holocaust & Lessons yet learned

 

Upcoming webinars:

 

Managing everyday anxiety

 

Use of herbs

 

Emergency Preparedness

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

January 30, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 23

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of January 15, 2023

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from the importance of social bonding to youth obesity to how PTSD impacts different portions of our population. Today, I wish to highlight the story on Recovery Friendly Workplaces (RFW). It is no secret that businesses across our region have been concerned about the shortage of workers. RFW is a program that addresses the need to SAFELY bring those workers who are in supervised treatment for OUD/SUD back into the workforce. As noted therein, a former Mizzou economics professor reported that Missouri has approximately 29000 workers who fit this category…of which ~3800 of those are construction workers! It is important to remember that OUD/SUD is now considered a disease not unlike diabetes. As such, businesses should consult their legal teams concerning how they can assist workers safely return to their shops, job sites and/or offices when adhering to the American with Disabilities Act and Mental Health Parity Act.

 

Source: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2023-01-20/recovery-friendly-workplaces-are-breaking-the-stigma-of-drug-rehabilitation

 

 

OSHA / Workplace Stress

 

Workers & The GREAT Rebalancing

 

Social bonds

 

Key to finding happiness?

 

Colleges & Student MH

 

Cross-cultural Suicide Prevention

 

Youth Obesity

 

Women / PTSD / Therapy

 

PTSD & Military

 

What is Fentanyl?

 

Recovery Friendly Workplaces / MO

 

OUD treatments

 

Fentanyl Test Strips

 

Narcan Distribution in COMO

 

Mexico’s battle w/ Cartels

 

Tranq Dope in Philly

 

Strongwomen & Suicide

 

Suicide Prevention

 

Doulas & Black Women

 

Sibling fights

 

Exercise & COVID

 

Morning exercise

 

10-minute Workout

 

Pickleball

 

Awe & Health

 

988 sees early usage

 

STL / 211 / Issues?

 

Boston’s Homeless

 

STL Building Union Diversity Program

 

US union market share

 

Amazon & Workers’ injuries

 

Amazon’s Smile wiped away

 

 

Upcoming webinars:

Living w/ Chronic Pain

 

Live your life well

 

Managing everyday worry

 

Mental Health First Aid

 

—CONSTRUCTION FOCUS—

Why We Need More Women in Construction

 

Strategies to Recruit and Retain Women

 

Being an Ally – Improving Treatment of Women on the Job

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

January 23, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 15

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of January 8, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from civil rights heroes to kids and cannabis to injuries on the field and at work. Today, I wish to shed some light on the 2 articles focusing on suicide. The first story examines the effectiveness of 988. In July 2022, this nation implemented a three-digit Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (Think 911). On average, wait times to speak to a MH professional went from 3 minutes to less than one minute over the past 6 months. This is great news for a person in crisis! The second story appeared in yesterday’s WSJ and reported on the VA’s new efforts to reduce suicides among our Veterans. This concerns me as I know many of our union sisters and brothers who proudly served our country! It was not too long ago that our nation saw a loss of nearly 24 vets EACH day to suicide (in 2021, this dropped to <18/day). Reports in 2017 suggested that over 50% of those related deaths were by guns. PLEASE…If you know of someone who is having suicidal thoughts, etc. NOW is the time to have discussions about the safe (offsite) storage of weapons and ammo.

 

 

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1148970520/examining-how-effective-the-national-mental-health-helpline-has-been
https://www.wsj.com/articles/va-expands-efforts-to-curb-suicide-among-veterans-11673704191

 

 

Standing up for civil rights

 

MLK: Test your knowledge

 

How effective is 988?

 

Curbing veteran suicides

NY & MH

 

NY & Overdoses

 

Combating opioid ODs

 

Workplace naloxone

 

Less lethal fentanyl?

Is any amount of alcohol harmful?

 

Kids & Cannabis

 

Children & Sexual Assault

 

Children & Vaccinations

S.A.D. & Light

US cancer rates drop

 

Remote work & Corporate Wellness

Health & Gas stoves

 

Does online therapy work?

 

Adults & Relationships

Best time to eat?

Changing your personality

 

PTs & reducing job injuries

 

Preventing shoulder injuries

Women / Track / Success

 

Of sport & injury

 

Death of a former NFLer

 

Nursing shortages, etc.

 

NYC nurses return from strike

 

Student loan update

 

Upcoming conference

Are you a global educator?

 

January 15, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 8

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of January 1, 2023

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from making/ignoring New Year’s resolutions to the impact of legalized marijuana in MO to recognizing the life, death, and mental health aspects of collision sports. Today, I wish to highlight the article that landed in my email 24 hours ago from the New York Times on Tranq Dope. If you have been following this blog for the past year or so, you should have noticed a number of articles on fentanyl and how it is destroying our people and their communities. I recently finished reading a 2021 book by Sam Quinones called, “The Least of Us.” In it he explains how meth and fentanyl are being mass produced (and mixed) for the US marketplace in Mexico with China’s ongoing support. Sadly, yesterday’s NYT article one ups Sam’s book. Why? Because we now have criminals who are adding a new drug (xylazine: a horse tranquilizer) into the fentanyl supply…which is causing people with OUD to lose arms and legs…before they lose their lives!

 

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/health/fentanyl-xylazine-drug.html?searchResultPosition=1

 

 

Leaders’ influence on MH

 

988 in MO

 

Speaking of suicide

 

Grief & Time

 

Another opioids settlement

Funding for safe-use sites?

 

Fentanyl’s new & SCARY twist

 

Magic mushrooms in OR

 

MO / Marijuana / Driving

 

Childhood trauma / Impact

 

Children & Weed edibles

 

Media & Changes in the teen brain

 

Food & housing insecurity / College

 

Soft skills for today

 

Today’s MH journey

New Year’s resolutions (1)

 

New Year’s resolutions (2)

 

New Year’s anti-resolutions

 

Digital declutter this New Year

 

A healthy relationship w/ work?

How to be happier in your job?

 

Simple habits

Self-care & Stress

Weight loss drug?

 

Tips to quit smoking

Neck & Back pain relief?

 

Vets & Homelessness

Living Apart

 

Damar / NFL / MH

 

Damar / NFL / Violence

 

Tua’s concussion: Update (1)

 

Tua’s concussion: Update (2)

 

Rugby / Concussions / Testing

 

Gen Z is Pro-union

 

Trades & Gen Z?

 

Trades & Pay

 

FTC / Non-compete Clauses

 

Upcoming webinars:

 

Legal marijuana in MO?

 

Mental Health First Aid

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

 

January 9, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights January 2

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of December 25, 2022

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from improving your mental health in 2023 to the importance of making connections to how COVID’s learning loss may negatively impact our children’s future earnings. Today, I wish to highlight the article pertaining to how each of us needs to focus on healthy daily habits. In order to reduce stress, try incorporating a mixture of the following into your daily routines: relax (mindfulness), journal (gratitude), exercise (including sleep and nutrition/hydration), monitor (limit your exposure to social media), and laugh! The past three years has taken a toll on most of our lives. The COVID pandemic has changed the way we must negotiate the future. To this end, Abe Lincoln once said: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.”

 

Source:

www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/7-daily-habits-thatll-improve-your-mental-health-in-2023/

MH advice for 2023

7 daily habits for improving MH

Emotional health & Kindness

Emotional support / Sadness / Conversing

Does virtual MH therapy work?

Military / Behavioral challenges / Enlist

Psychedelics on the rise & Safety

Psychedelics & Brain research

Post-pandemic life: Connections

Mental Illness & Connections

Teen pregnancy & Child poverty

Children: Victims of fentanyl

2022: Opioids in America

Another Opioids lawsuit

Narcan is NOT bulletproof

Fentanyl addiction & Treatment

Schools stock Narcan

FDA & non-prescription naloxone?

Anxiety & Your brain

Aging & Insomnia

Tinnitus treatment?

Schools & Absenteeism

Schools / Learning loss / Earnings

Rosati-Kain HS update

Tua / Concussions / Future?

Women / Rugby / Concussions

Pele: The real GOAT

Pro-union sentiment

OK & Black market weed

Student debt: Update

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

January 2, 2023/0 Comments/by Braxton Payne
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Worker Wellness News

Wellness & Well-being Highlights December 26

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of December 18, 2022

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from the homelessness crisis in the USA to the lowering of life expectancy in the USA to, once again, the impact of fentanyl on our society. Today, I wish to highlight the articles pertaining to how synthetic drugs (i.e., fentanyl and meth) are being weaponized by countries like China and Mexico to destroy communities from within. This blog has provided dozens of articles over the past year indicating how our loved ones are dying all around us…this scourge knows no boundaries! To this end, it is important to keep in mind that we reap what we sow. Our free market economy way of life continues to push manufacturers to seek lower costs and higher earnings. Often these producers must move production overseas in order to cut labor costs, etc. In turn, as consumers seek cheaper goods, we gut the backbone of our cities and towns: good paying jobs with benefits. Some experts suggest that China is exacting revenge for the Opium Wars (over 100 years ago) by leveraging the new idleness in these (rural) locales. America must reframe the concepts of addiction and recovery if we are to stem the tide of overdose deaths in this country!

 

Sources:

https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-chinese-ambassador-warns-sanctions-hurt-fight-against-fentanyl-flow-us-1747680

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dmgBg7nw94

 

The homelessness crisis

2022 Women’s Health Survey

Suicide / Warning signs

Grief & Holidays

Loneliness & holidays

Managing Anxiety?

Gambling / Teens / College

Screening for anxiety <66

US life expectancy (1)

US life expectancy (2)

MH Journey

MH: More Americans seek help

Teens & MH

Candy & Addiction

Trauma & US Intelligence

Impact of pandemic on rural HC workers

Frats & Narcan

STL Co Opioids Settlement

Snap Chat & Fentanyl sales

Brief history of US plunge into opioids

US fentanyl deaths

Fentanyl seizure’s potential impact

Mexican cartels & Fentanyl

The shift from plant-based drugs to synthetic drugs

DEA’s fentanyl failure

Fentanyl’s flow from China to Mexico to USA

Testing for fentanyl

Fentanyl: How media misguides public

US Attorney General & Powder/Crack Cocaine

Vets / Pain / Acupuncture

Healing power of forgiveness

Plugging the plug on social media

Student loan: Update

Concussions & Q Collar: Real or Myth?

Child labor & Hyundai supplier

2022 & Union organizing

Upcoming Webinar:

Suicide Awareness & Prevention

 

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

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