City-County joint initiative announced to fight heroin
Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced a joint comprehensive plan Wednesday to address the rising number of heroin and prescription drug overdoses in the county.
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Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced a joint comprehensive plan Wednesday to address the rising number of heroin and prescription drug overdoses in the county.
A unit of University Health Services received a federal grant of $23.5 million Tuesday to combat the spread of disease in Wisconsin over the next five years.
In high school, students are told their four years of education will prepare them for the rigorous academia of college. For Alex Giordano, this was not the case.
The so-called ""Path to Prosperity,"" a slew of budget reform measures backed by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, is anything but helpful. Ryan claims that by cutting programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, he will be able to save the government $6 trillion. So, just what are some of the more questionable items in this new budget bill?
My boyfriend dumped me last year. I'm over it; it's fine. The real problem is, he bought me a REALLY nice, REALLY expensive ($100+) vibrator when we were dating. Since the dumpage I've tried using it, but it only brings up bad memories about my ex. How can I use the vibrator without feeling weird every time? —Feeling Bad Vibes
University Health Services has launched a drop-in counseling program in an effort to remove barriers for UW-Madison students who need help, but may not be inclined to seek traditional counseling services.
A Dane County jury granted $1 million to Dr. Charles and Karen Johnson, who claimed mental health care providers led their daughter to falsely accuse her parents of sexual and physical abuse Sunday.
UW-Madison senior Albert ""Alby"" Luciani took 60 muscle relaxants and lay down in his closet, hoping to quietly slip away.
Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced the development of two new crisis centers in the area at a press conference at the Mental Health Care Center of Dane County Tuesday.
Somehow I smashed the screen on my fancy and fairly new Samsung sliding-touch phone to kingdom come, and over the next few weeks slowly watched the light behind the screen die from where I cracked it outwards... malignant cancer of the phone. I remember the sinking feeling in my stomach as my text messages, contacts and favorite Star Trek adventure game faded away into nonexistence. Now I'm stuck with this antique pile of shit flip phone, with a half-assed camera and T9 prediction for texts. I remember clutching a similar one while scurrying around the halls during the early years of high school, but at that time they were the cat's meow, the cool thing to have.
Two days after the Massachusetts special election put health care on the back burner in Washington (that's assuming it was even on the front burner), Governor Jim Doyle announced a non-state funded health-care plan for adults without dependants. The BadgerCare Basic program would cost enrolled Wisconsin residents $130 per month and is designed to benefit those 20,000 people currently on the BadgerCare Plus waiting list.
Apparently, ears can be sexy. I was under the ignorant impression that so long as your ears did not evoke childhood memories of Dumbo's flight, stick out from your neck, or you know, weren't there, ears were unimportant to overall attractiveness. I know, you must be thinking, ""What rock have I been living under?"" According to Heidi Montag, one of the reality celebs that make headlines by creating a ""situation,"" she did not have sexy ears until she went under the knife for 10 simultaneous procedures to perfect her body. The procedures included a neck liposuction, breast augmentation revision and a brow lift, the but for Montag, they do not seem to be enough. For now, it's the new year, new her, but she claims that surgery will still be necessary down the road.
Anything bugging you recently? Perhaps it's too early to ask that question since we're just one week into the new semester. But even minor stressors may disrupt a well-kept daily schedule and cast a shadow over your bright mood in the long run. Meeting a professional counselor just seems like making a mountain out of a mole hill. Friends, on the other hand, are already too busy riding in the fast lane of college life. That is how SPILL, an e-mail-based peer listening group, came to fill the void. Although SPILL does not provide any forms of counseling services, it offers a novel approach to the mental health of college students.
For 17 years, researcher Ei Terasawa restrained rhesus monkeys and left them fully conscious while repeatedly pumping deadly chemicals into their exposed brains. It wasn't until the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) discovered that a neglected monkey had accidentally died under her care that her push-pull perfusion experiment was put on hold and the treatment of primates in lab settings was reevaluated.
Lately, I haven't been as interested in sex as I used to be, and it's becoming kind of a problem... How do I get back in the groove?
Mental health care received small funding boosts throughout the UW System in 2009, though every university still fell short of recommended staffing ratios.
State Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, and State Rep. Sandy Pasch, D-Whitefish Bay, introduced the Wisconsin Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Act to lawmakers Wednesday.
Transferring to UW-Madison can be a stressful ordeal, but assimilating into Badger red when all you feel is blue is especially tough.
Mental health care could become more of a priority in the city of Madison, thanks to a new 24-hour mental health care crisis center recently proposed in the county budget.
Students were encouraged to discuss local issues with Wisconsin state lawmakers at the College Democrats of Madison annual state panel held Tuesday.