Youth at a Crossroads: the Intersection of Substance Use and Suicidal Ideation
Dr. Yifrah Kaminer, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Pediatrics with the Alcohol Research Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, joins us to discuss substance use disorders (SUD) and suicidal ideation among our nation’s youth, a worsening crisis that has started to extend to middle schoolers. Among the topics we discuss are: Yifrah’s background, clinical experience, and his parallel life as an author of two children’s books and a play the increase in depression since the 1990s, the rising depression, suicide and opioids epidemics. the differences/similarities between…
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