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Prescriptions of psychiatric drugs are soaring - but are sadness and grief being confused with depression? 6 February 2021 • 6:00am "A person’s feelings are “medicalised” – framed as something for which you need to “get help”. And usually, these days, it’s with drugs."  Credit: Illustration by Lisa Sheehan Five years ago my medical records read like a psychiatry textbook. Stressed and unhappy after the sudden end of my marriage in 2010, I stopped being able to sleep. My GP told me I had an ‘adjustment disorder’ and gave me sleeping pills. When these didn’t work, I was d...

REC Seeks Partners for Expanded Broadband Services Fredericksburg, Va. – Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) knows how important increasing access to retail broadband service is to its member-owners. The Cooperative continues to actively seek partnerships to utilize its infrastructure and rights-of-way to expand broadband internet service in its 22-county service area. As REC moves closer to establishing some of the first partnerships, the Cooperative also faced a major setback to its plans towards the end of 2020. In October, REC’s Board of Directors approved a $600 million broadband...

Push for 30 and 40km/h limit on all Victorian streets Alex Rae A healthy walking advocate charity, Victoria Walks, is campaigningto introduce reduced speed limits across Victoria and the widening of current school zones. The key targets are shifting the current 50km/h speed limit on local streets down to 40km/h, and from 40km/h to 30km/h in "busy pedestrian areas", such as shopping strips. The group states that there is research showing two-thirds of all Victorians want lower speed limits on local streets: “We know 66 per cent of Victorians support lower speed limits in nei...

M v H ( private law vaccination) [2020] EWFC 93 MacDonald J granted a specific issue order authorising the administration of vaccinations to two children, ages 6 and 4 in accordance with the NHS vaccination schedule. In doing so he considered the role of the court in this area, the application of the principles set out in Re H (A Child: Parental Responsibility: Vaccination) [2020] EWCA Civ 664 in private law disputes, the use of expert evidence and the approach to proportionality under Article 8. ____ There was a background private law dispute which was being dealt with by a district judg...

AMA Position Statement on Social Determinants of Health 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to prioritise efforts to close the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians and non-Indigenous Australians, AMA President Dr Omar Khorshid said today. Releasing the AMA Position Statement on Social Determinants of Health 2020, Dr Khorshid said that pandemic-related job losses, economic disruption, and social isolation are disproportionately affecting poorer, disadvantaged Australians, particularly those in rural and remote areas. “While the Position Statement’s ...