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House Urged To Spare Funding Cuts To LGBTQ Suicide Hotline
The Hill (5/13, Migdon ) reports more than 100 House Democrats, led by Reps. Seth Moulton (MA) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL), wrote a letter Tuesday urging HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “to spare a crisis service for LGBTQ youth from federal funding cuts, calling the plan, part of a leaked budget proposal, ‘ill-advised’ and dangerous.” An internal budget document “would eliminate specialized services for LGBTQ youth who contact 988, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, as part of a broader Trump administration effort to slash funding and programs it says are bloating the federal government.” The Democrats said, “Ending this mental health support for youth in distress would devastate a vital resource for some of our nation’s most vulnerable young people.” According to SAMHSA, “the program received an average of 2,100 crisis contacts daily.” Seven Democratic senators sent a similar letter to Kennedy last week.
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— “House Democrats: Funding cuts to LGBTQ suicide hotline will have ‘lethal consequences’,” Brooke Migdon, The Hill, May 13, 2025
Increased Sedentary Time Linked With Neurodegeneration, Worse Cognitive Scores Among Older Patients Despite High Levels Of Physical Activity, Study Finds
MedPage Today (5/13, George ) reports, “More time spent sitting or lying down was linked with neurodegeneration and worse cognitive scores in older adults, even among people who were physically active, a 7-year study showed.” Researchers observed that “in cross-sectional models, greater sedentary time was tied to a smaller Alzheimer’s disease-imaging MRI signature and worse episodic memory scores.” They added that “in longitudinal analyses, more sedentary time was associated with faster hippocampal volume shrinkage, and declines in naming scores and processing speed scores.” Investigators concluded, “These findings suggest that above and beyond physical activity level, more sedentary behavior is still worse for brain health and cognition over time.” The study was published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
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— MedPage Today (requires login and subscription)
Nearly 19M US Children May Be Living With A Parent With SUD, Research Letter Says
Psychiatric News (5/12) reports a research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics says that “about one-quarter of children in the United States may be living in a household where one or more parents have a substance use disorder.” Researchers calculated national estimates of children “exposed to parental SUDs using data from the 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.” They found that “nearly 19 million children lived with a parent who met DSM-5 criteria for past-year SUD. Of this total, around 11.3 million children had a parent with mild SUD, while 7.6 million had a parent with moderate to severe SUD.” They observed the “most common parental SUD was alcohol use disorder, which affected more than 12 million children, followed distantly by cannabis use disorder and then prescription medication use disorder.
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— “Nearly 19 Million Children May Be Living With a Parent With SUD,” Psychiatric News, May , 2025
Nicotine Pouch Use Rises Among US Teens, Study Shows
The Washington Post (5/12, Docter-Loeb) reports new research published in JAMA Network Open shows that “more U.S. high-schoolers used nicotine pouches – smokeless nicotine powder products – last year than the year before.” The study used data from a 2023-2024 survey of 10,146 youths, revealing that “5.4 percent of 10th- and 12th-graders reported having used nicotine pouches, up from 3 percent the year before. The 10th- and 12th-graders’ use of pouches in the 12 months and 30 days before the surveys also increased year to year.” According to the study, teens who are male, white, and living in rural areas showed higher usage. The study also noted increased dual use with e-cigarettes, “but the sole use of e-cigarettes decreased across a lifetime, as well as in the previous 12 months and past 30 days.”
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Users of illicit stimulants faced elevated risk of ventricular arrhythmia and mortality
MedPage Today (5/9, Lou ) reported, “Users of illicit stimulants were at elevated risk of ventricular arrhythmia (VA) and mortality, according to a longitudinal cohort study from California.” Investigators found that “a record of methamphetamine use was associated with increased incident VA…and mortality…over nearly 10-year follow-up.” Meanwhile, “cocaine use was similarly tied to VA…and mortality.” The findings were published in the European Heart Journal.
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— MedPage Today (requires login and subscription)
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