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Holistic crisis management: Lawyers step in to solve problems, large and small   Attorney Laurence Kahn (left) assists a Help Now client. Photo from the Help Now! Advocacy Center. Throughout Laurence Kahn’s career as a lawyer who prosecuted consumer fraud and resolved countless disputes, he always believed a big part of his job was helping people with their problems. In 2004, that attitude sparked a thought one night as Kahn lay in bed. “This came to me from within, in the middle of a night,” he recalls. “The whole concept was literally there in an instant.” The idea? Kahn wanted t...

Email Once you know the signs someone is high on opioids, you can take the first steps toward getting them help. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans knows someone who’s addicted to opioids or has been in the past,   according to a 2018 poll from the American Psychiatric Association. Opioids can be legally prescribed painkillers—such as oxycodone or morphine—or illegal street drugs, such as heroin or street fentanyl. About 80% of heroin users began with prescription opioids, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Learning the signs of opioid intoxication—meaning someone is high o...

Feeling lonely, depressed or anxious? Pennsylvania has mental health services ready to help Updated Dec 21, 2020; It’s going to be a tough holiday season for many Pennsylvanians, but the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services wants you to know that you don’t have to endure it alone. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state is encouraging everyone to only spend the holidays with those who live in their household in order to prevent the spread of the virus. While social distancing has been hard throughout the pandemic, the department expects feelings of loneliness, anxiety and depres...