The Wall Street Journal (7/1, Chapman, Subscription Publication) reports the New York Police Department is seeking help from other departments on decreasing suicide among its officers. The article points out that six NYPD officers have died by suicide so far this year.

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— “NYPD Turns to Other Departments for Help After Series of Suicides, ” Ben Chapman, The Wall Street Journal, July 01, 2019

Reuters (7/1, Carroll) reports, “Just like cigarettes, alcohol creates secondhand harms,” research indicated. After examining “data from two nationally representative surveys: the 2015 National Alcohol’s Harm to Others Survey, which contained information on 2,830 adults, and the 2015 National Alcohol Survey, which contained data on 7,071 adults,” investigators found that “more than one in five women and nearly one in four men experienced some harm related to someone else’s drinking.” The findings were published online June 30 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

CNN (7/1, Howard) reports that for the study, “each adult was asked whether they had experienced any of 10 different types of harm in the past 12 months caused by ‘someone who had been drinking.’” Included in the “different types of harm” were “harassment; feeling threatened or afraid; having belongings ruined; having property vandalized; being pushed, hit or assaulted; being physically harmed; being in a traffic accident; being a passenger in a vehicle with a drunk driver; having family or marital problems; and having financial trouble.” Healio (7/1, Miller) also covers the story.

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— “Alcohol’s secondhand harms prevalent among U.S. women and men, “Linda Carroll, Reuters, July 01, 2019

Healio (6/28, Demko) reported, “Multimorbidity using a validated index weighted to physical functioning was linked to faster decline in global cognition and verbal memory over time among U.S. middle-aged and older adults,” research indicated. The findings of the 14,265-participant study were published online June 6 in the Journals of Gerontology Series A.

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— “Multimorbidity accelerates cognitive decline in older adults, “Savannah Demko, Healio, June 28, 2019

HealthDay (6/28, Norton) reported, “Children exposed to opioids in the womb may have heightened risks of long-term mental and physical health issues,” researchers concluded after examining data “on more than 8,500 mothers who gave birth at Boston Medical Center between 1998 and 2016.” The study revealed that “on average…children exposed to opioids in the womb had roughly twice the risk of being diagnosed with conduct disorder, emotional disturbances or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.” Then, “as preschoolers, those children were also more likely to show slower-than-normal physical development,” the study found. The findings were published online in JAMA Network Open.

MedPage Today (6/28, Hlavinka) reported that “because the issues faced by women with opioid use disorder are complex, postpartum interventions that address employment, financial security, and safe housing need to be considered in addition to pregnancy care, wrote” the author of an accompanying editorial.

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— “Prenatal Opioid Exposure Could Bring Long-Term Harm to Kids, “Amy Norton, HealthDay , June 28, 2019

The Wall Street Journal (6/30, Reddy, Subscription Publication) reported on the safety and effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment of severe depression that is resistant to treatment.

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— “New Thinking Challenges the Stigma Around ‘Shock Therapy’, ” Sumathi Reddy, The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2019