MedPage Today (1/14) reports a study funded by the NIH that included a survey of over 5,000 teen-parent pairs suggests that “parents were frequently unaware when their adolescent children had suicidal or morbid thoughts, but when they did believe their children thought about killing themselves, children often denied it.” The findings were published in Pediatrics.

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Healio (1/11, Demko) reported researchers found that in a “prospective cohort study” involving 34,552 children, “more than 40% started school with vulnerabilities in social-emotional functioning tied to emerging” mental illnesses. The findings were published online Jan. 4 in JAMA Network Open.

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— “Many children may start school with social-emotional vulnerabilities, “Savannah Demko, Healio, January 11, 2019

Healio Gastroenterology (1/10, Young) reports, “Women with inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] are at higher risk for developing new-onset psychiatric disorders during the postpartum period, particularly mood and anxiety disorders and substance abuse disorders,” researchers concluded after comparing data on “3,721 women with IBD and 798,908 women without IBD.” The findings were published online Jan. 5 in the journal Gut.

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— “Women with IBD at higher risk for postpartum, new-onset psychiatric disorders, “Alex Young, Healio Gastroenterology, January 10, 2019

The CBS News (1/10, Welch) website reports, “A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” published Jan. 11 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report “reveals that drug overdose deaths among females aged 30 to 64 have skyrocketed in recent years.”

The NBC News (1/10, Fox) website reports that “deaths from drug overdoses increased by 260 percent among women aged 30 to 64 between 1999 and 2017.” In addition, “the rate of drug overdose deaths from opioids increased by an enormous 492 percent among women aged 30 to 64,” investigators revealed.

CNN (1/10, Howard) reports that for the study, researchers focused on “nationwide mortality data on people living in the United States between 1999 and 2017.” The data used in the study “came from the National Vital Statistics System, which is based on information from death certificates.” The study team closely examined “overdose death rates among women ages 30 to 64 overall and then by drug type: antidepressants, benzodiazepines, cocaine, heroin, prescription opioids and synthetic opioids, excluding methadone.”

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— “Drug overdose deaths skyrocket among middle-aged women, “Ashley Welch, CBS News, January 10, 2019

According to Reuters (1/8, Rapaport), children “may be more likely to develop depression and anxiety when their parents are regular drinkers, even when neither parent drinks enough to be considered an alcoholic,” researchers concluded after studying “8,773 children from 6,696 two-parent families.” The findings were published online Jan. 7 in JAMA Pediatrics.

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— “Even ‘non-problem’ drinking by parents tied to mental health problems in kids, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, January 8, 2019