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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
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Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
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The Formative Years: Pathways to Substance Abuse Among Girls and Young Women Ages 8-22
A February report (in Adobe Acrobat format) from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University that was brought to our attention at the Join Together web site, which notes, "This report, published by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), examines the pathways to addiction for girls and young women between the ages of 8 and 24. It contributes to CASA's goal of looking seriously at substance abuse among American women of all ages."  
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Conference Probes Pathology of Self-Awareness
Article in the June Psychiatric Times - "The inability to create an accurate picture of self-awareness is a feature in many mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, autism, ADHD, personality disorders and substance abuse. At a Kansas City, Mo., conference, researchers begin to establish a biological basis for self-awareness and hope to isolate the deficits in the brain that causes abnormal functioning."  
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