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  • UPMC doc: Prioritize mental health during holiday season

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    CUMBERLAND — The holiday season is often described as “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many, it can be a source of anxiety and stress.

    Dr. Tooba Qadir of UPMC Western Maryland recently offered advice ahead of the holiday season designed to help people prioritize mental health.


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  • UPMC doc: Prioritize mental health during holiday season

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    CUMBERLAND — The holiday season is often described as “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many, it can be a source of anxiety and stress.

    Dr. Tooba Qadir of UPMC Western Maryland recently offered advice ahead of the holiday season designed to help people prioritize mental health.


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    Natalie Leslie can be reached at 304-639-4403.

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  • UPMC doc: Prioritize mental health during holiday season

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    CUMBERLAND — The holiday season is often described as “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many, it can be a source of anxiety and stress.

    Dr. Tooba Qadir of UPMC Western Maryland recently offered advice ahead of the holiday season designed to help people prioritize mental health.


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  • UPMC doc: Prioritize mental health during holiday season

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    CUMBERLAND — The holiday season is often described as “the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many, it can be a source of anxiety and stress.

    Dr. Tooba Qadir of UPMC Western Maryland recently offered advice ahead of the holiday season designed to help people prioritize mental health.


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  • Nearly 1,200 sign petition to stop treatment center from opening

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    HAVERHILL — A petition with nearly 1,200 signatures from concerned residents and property owners is calling to stop a proposed 24-bed men’s substance use and mental health facility from moving into the neighborhood.

    The petition, posted on Change.org and titled “Stop Riverbend House from coming into our neighborhood,” urges Haverhill residents to oppose Riverbend’s plan to open the “Bradford House” at 11 Kingsbury Ave.


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  • Annual Salem Walk for Overdose Awareness emphasizes need for community support

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    SALEM — A group of about 30 community members walked from the Salem Common to Riley Plaza on Thursday as a part of the annual Walk for Overdose Awareness.

    The event included speakers stressing the importance of creating a larger support network for community members struggling with substance abuse and addiction.


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  • Question 4: Should the state legalize psychedelic mushrooms?

    Question 4: Should the state legalize psychedelic mushrooms?

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    BOSTON — Supporters of psychedelic mushrooms are urging voters to approve a referendum legalizing the hallucinogenic drug for “therapeutic” use, but critics argue the move would jeopardize public health and safety and fuel a gray market.

    Question 4 would, if approved, decriminalize psilocybin and other psychedelics and allow adults 21 and older to use the drugs under supervision at licensed centers. It would also allow people to grow their own mushrooms at home and give the drugs to others.

    Unlike the legalization of recreation cannabis in 2016, Question 4 if approved would not authorize retail sales of psychedelics. Psychedelics sold at therapeutic facilities would be subject to the state’s 6.25% sales tax and a new 15% excise tax.

    Adults 21 and older would be allowed to grow, possess and use psychedelics. A home-grow provision in the proposal would allow people to cultivate psychedelic mushrooms in their home in a 144-square-foot area, according to the referendum’s wording.

    The group Massachusetts for Mental Health Options, which has cleared several hurdles to put the question before voters, frames the effort as a way to help treat mental illness, citing studies showing the promise of psilocybin as a therapeutic drug.

    Backers of the referendum, which include military veterans and former police officers, argue there is growing body of evidence that psilocybin and other psychedelic substances can help in treating psychological disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.

    “For years, I struggled with PTSD and depression … Psychedelic medicine was a breakthrough for me,” said Emily Oneschuk, a Navy veteran and outreach director for the group, said in recent TV ad urging voters to approve the measure. “It helped me embrace life again.”

    But opponents, including medical experts, argue that legalizing a drug that can lead to psychosis would jeopardize public health and safety.

    Chris Keohan, spokesman for the opposition group Coalition For Safe Communities, said major concern about question for Question 4 is that it wouldn’t allow cities and towns to opt out of hosting “therapy” centers. He said opponents are also alarmed about the “bedroom size” grow area that would be allowed for psychedelics under the home-grow provision.

    “We’re not challenging the medicinal benefits for the people that genuinely need the help,” he said. “But this was written to enable for-profit facilities to open up.”

    Another concern for opponents is the cost of psychedelic therapy, which would not be covered by insurance and would likely be beyond what most people in the state can afford to pay for out-of-pocket health care costs, he said. The ballot question does not set a cap on how much can be charged for the therapeutic treatment.

    “I’d like to know how many people in the state of Massachusetts are going through the painful issues that they talk about can afford $750 to $3,500 per visit,” Keohan said. “They are providing false hope to the people that need it the most.”

    He said another concern is that the referendum includes several kinds of psychedelic compounds, in addition to psilocybin, which create major health risks for patients. That includes mescaline, derived from the peyote cactus, and ibogaine, a drug that comes from the roots of the African shrub iboga, which is known to cause cardiac arrests and seizures.

    “Massachusetts voters aren’t stupid and they know when they’re being sold a bill of goods, and that’s what this is,” Keohan said.

    The ballot question is backed by the Washington, D.C.-based New Approach political action committee, which has supported similar initiatives in Oregon and Colorado, where psilocybin is legal. The group has raised and spent millions of dollars on advertising to sway voters on the referendum.

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized “breakthrough therapy” status for the psychedelic drug for the purposes of clinical trials being conducted by private research companies.

    But psilocybin is still illegal under federal law, classified as a Schedule 1 drug under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act along with LSD, heroin and other drugs, with no accepted medical uses.

    A handful of Massachusetts communities, including Salem, Amherst and Cambridge, have approved plans to decriminalize small amounts of psilocybin and authorize its use for therapy.

    A legislative committee that reviewed the proposal concluded that the primary goals of the referendum — licensure and decriminalization — would likely “undercut each other by creating two separate systems for the use of psychedelic substances.” The lawmakers said that could fuel black market sales of the hallucinogenic drug.

    “The petition would both create a system of state-licensed and taxed therapeutic facilities on the one hand and, on the other, decriminalize the cultivation, possession, and distribution of a variety of hallucinogenic and psychoactive substances,” lawmakers wrote in a report on the proposal.

    A report by Tufts University’s Center for State Policy Analysis echoed those concerns.

    Christian M. Wade covers the Massachusetts Statehouse for North of Boston Media Group’s newspapers and websites. Email him at cwade@cnhinews.com.

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  • NYC Will Hospitalize Mentally Ill People Involuntarily

    NYC Will Hospitalize Mentally Ill People Involuntarily

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    New York City mayor Eric Adams directed police and emergency medical workers to take individuals who appear “mentally ill” into custody involuntarily for psychiatric evaluations. What do you think?

    “That ought to teach them not to be failed by the system.”

    Omar Bonnet, Land Claimer

    “This is as close to politicians investing in mental health as we’re going to get.”

    Mohammad Ayad, Penologist

    “Being forcibly detained by a man with a gun usually quells my inner demons.”

    Sara Denham, Dairy Scientist

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