While in a perfect world it would be great to prevent substance use disorders from ever developing, once they have developed, figuring out how and when to effectively intervene is quite a challenge. Preventing death is the goal. With each preventable death comes an opportunity for that person to recover and turn their life around. And that is the focus of PORT.
Read MoreLet’s Move!!! When Courtney Meece came on board as the Executive Director of Healthy Rowan, a major concern of the Executive Board was how sedentary people had become during the COVID 19 pandemic. The idea of a program to...
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How do we keep from getting flu and/or COVID?
The same principles apply to both flu and COVID, and that is to begin by being as healthy as possible so that your immune system can help you. Maintaining an appropriate body weight, eating healthy foods, and staying physically active are critical to your body performing the way it is built to perform.
If you experience seasonal affective disorder, you’re not alone — it affects around 1 in 20 adults in the United States and many of the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder are similar to other forms of depression. The difference is that SAD symptoms always begin at a certain time of year and go away when the seasons change again.
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Are you the person who faces the holidays with dread? Who cringes when you see the number of days remaining until Christmas? Are you tempted to block people on Facebook who post that they already have their Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving? If you are, you join a host of people who face the holidays with anxiety due to the stress you feel. However, a real truth is that the holidays are not stressful, it is each individual who creates their own stress. We create our own stress in many ways, and we do it to ourselves. We create unrealistic expectations of how the holidays should be…ones we can never meet, and therein lies the stress.
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