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Economy Driving People to Abuse Substances?

Mitchell E. Wallick, Ph.D. CAP ICADC FABFCE, Executive Director of C.A.R.E. Addiction Recovery has observed an increase in the number of people who call the Florida drug rehab facility seeking treatment that has corresponded with the downward declines in incomes, increased mortgage foreclosures and other signs of economic distress.

Economic downturns traditionally lead to increased substance abuse, compulsive gambling and other addictive behaviors, and that trend is emerging again. "As people face the devastating disasters of unemployment, increased expenses, stress of job uncertainty, etc., it is not surprising that they turn to addictive behaviors to bury their situational depression and anxiety and escape from the world which appears bleak, boring and without hope," says Wallick.

The more alcohol an individual drinks, the smaller his or her total brain volume, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Brain volume decreases with age at an estimated rate of 1.9 percent per decade, accompanied by an increase in white matter lesions, according to background information in the article. Lower brain volumes and larger white matter lesions also occur with the progression of dementia and problems with thinking, learning and memory. Moderate alcohol consumption has been associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease; because the brain receives blood from this system, researchers have hypothesized that small amounts of alcohol may also attenuate age-related declines in brain volume.

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Columns - Management Corner: Technology Trends

Written by Jim Mays

Friday, 04 January 2008

In July, the popular social networking site, MySpace, deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders from its service. Just two months earlier, they deleted 7,000 offenders. The minimum age to register for a page on MySpace is 14. Why would sex offenders register to participate in a social networking site?
The Internet can be a scary place filled with monsters eager to prey on the unsuspecting. Reveal too much about yourself and you may end up being stalked, or even worse. In a recent article, the author wrote, “Anybody could be tracking your children online. Even me” (Flanagan, 2007). She starts at the now infamous website, MySpace, with a young teen living nearby. Through the course of the article she manages to track the teen to a degree that should be frightening to parents.

Twenty years ago, you would be hard pressed as an individual to meet even a small number of sex offenders. Now, a quick jump into cyberspace lets me rub virtual shoulders with them and conversely, they can rub shoulders with me.

Google yourself. Type your name into an Internet search engine and take a look at the resulting entries. A search for my name yields a real estate agent in New Zealand and a prospective NBA player from Clemson University. Alas, fame has not come my way.

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