MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: May 17, 2024

Each week a quote is shared for your consideration. Some quotes might offer comfort, hope, a challenge, a chuckle, or inspiration. You may or may not agree with the quote, but it is offered simply to help you reflect and ponder.

Low intensity exercise linked to reduced depression (opens new window)

8 Health Benefits of Collagen (opens new window)

6 Things You Should Do At Night If You Want To Be Happier In The Morning (opens new window) (opens new window)

UNC board slashes diversity program funding to divert money to public safety resources (opens new window)

As North Carolina’s public university system considers a vote on changing its diversity policy, the system’s flagship university board voted Monday to cut funding for diversity programs in next year’s budget. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change that would divert $2.3 million of diversity spending from state funds to go toward public safety and policing at a special meeting to address the university’s budget. Read more (opens new window)

Counterfeit fentanyl pills are becoming a lot more common in law enforcement seizures (opens new window)

A new study shows a dramatic spike in the number of counterfeit fentanyl pills being seized by law enforcement, an indication of the growing illicit drug supply driving the country's historic opioid crisis. Read more (opens new window)

Americans are increasingly concerned about their mental health, survey says. Here’s how social media plays a role (opens new window)

A larger proportion of Americans are worried about their mental health now than at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey from CVS Health. In March, the nation’s biggest pharmacy chain partnered with Morning Consult to poll 2,202 U.S. adults. Read more (opens new window)

Why am I lonely? Lack of social connections hurts Americans' mental health (opens new window)

Tens of millions of people don’t have relationships that provide meaning in daily life. No amount of federal money − no number of mental health workers or programs − will solve that problem. Read more (opens new window)

Mental Health Awareness Month: Watchdog Blasts Ongoing Psychiatric Racism (opens new window)

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International and its Task Force Against Racism and Modern-Day Eugenics warns that psychiatric racism is still rife in mental health systems, despite an American Psychiatric Association (APA) apology in 2021 for psychiatry’s “role in perpetrating structural racism” and a “history of actions…that hurt Black, Indigenous, and People of Color” (BIPOC). Read more (opens new window)

Are we talking too much about Mental Health? (opens new window)

Recent studies cast doubt on whether large scale mental health interventions are making younger people better. Some even suggest that they can have a negative effect. Read more (opens new window)