Jeremy London’s “Kidnapping” Story Led to Sobriety

In 2010, Jeremy London appeared to be apparently kidnapped and made to do medications. After a fight with being addicted to prescription drugs, some people ended up being unwilling to trust his story. His loved ones went so far as to state that as a result of London’s drug addiction, he might have embellished the [...]

$1.2m ChCh bipolar study is first for NZ

Huge ups, and huge downs. Sufferers of bipolar disorder can feel deeply depressed, and yet at other times, maniacally up.

Swedish researchers in ‘depression gene’ find

Swedish researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg have managed to identify a gene which they believe has a strong connection to bipolar disorder.

The Bipolar Disorder Drug Market Will Decline from $6.5 Billion in 2010 to $4 Billion in 2020, Owing Largely to …

Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that, owing largely to increasing generic competition within the atypical antipsychotic drug class—starting with Zyprexa’s …

Antipsychotics: Modest Benefits for Non-Approved Conditions

A new research review shows that powerful drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression may have modest benefits when they are prescribed for certain other mental and behavioral problems.

Zeta-Jones’s courageous admission boosts bipolar campaign in Scotland

FILM star Catherine Zeta- Jones’ admission that she had bipolar disorder has sparked a national campaign about the illness in Scotland.

Addiction

The situation begins innocently enough, a couple of cocktails, a couple of tablets or possibly a needle so the pattern begins. In early stages drugs and alcohol can give a normally self-conscious man or woman a gift of recognition, often getting them to the life of the party level. Individuals who have over used alcohol [...]

It’s a disease

Recent high profile deaths have put suicide and mental health in the headlines. Society stills struggles to understand that depression and bipolar affective disorder along with other mental health disorders are diseases just like cancer or heart diseas…

Hope of Recovery art exhibit set for Sunday in Mobile (photo gallery)

MOBILE, Alabama — Diagnosed with bipolar disorder more than a decade ago, Zena Slay, now 39, proudly explained that she hasn’t been drunk or high in nearly eight months. “I was in crisis earlier this year,” the Mobile woman said. “I quit cold …

Depression, bipolar are treatable, Palm Beach Day Academy teachers learn in training

This is not your typical back-to-school story. This is about parents and teachers who care enough about the epidemic of depression and bipolar illness in our schools to be trained in how to identify symptoms among students, and how to foster openness o…

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