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A report from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MPH, says that the health effects of loneliness can be as bad as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day.

Sweden has an ambulance for mental health emergencies   CW: The following piece discusses suicide and suicidality. Over in Sweden, 1,500 suicides and 15,000 suicide attempts are reported on a yearly basis. It poses, as all mental health does, a serious puzzle to solve. In order to step closer to understanding, Stockholm’s health care services have introduced the Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PAM) – which is an ambulance dedicated solely to mental health care. It represents the first of its kind in the world, which ostensibly makes it an emergency response therapy room that can wea...