Source: StatNews.com New Jersey’s 21 mobile intensive-care paramedic units are now authorized to administer the drug buprenorphine to patients almost immediately after reviving them from an opioid overdose. The order, from Dr. Shereef Elnahal, New Jersey’s health commissioner, authorizes them to carry Suboxone or a generic equivalent. As one of just three medications approved to […]
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Overview · Dept. of Veterans Affairs · Postpartum PTSD · Alternative Treatments · NJ National Alliance on Mental Illness · NJ Specialists Source: NAMI.org When we think about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it’s typically in the context of military service members and veterans — and for good reason. But actually, about eight […]
PART ONE Source: W. Kamau Bell, CNN.com I had to decide if I was afraid of the pain of vascectomy — yes; I was 100% afraid of the pain. When you are born with a penis and testicles, you learn early on how sensitive that area is and to protect it at all cost. One […]
Source: DailyRecord.com The New Jersey state Senate has unanimously passed Mallory’s Law, named for Mallory Grossman, the Rockaway Township 12-year-old who died by suicide two years ago after she was allegedly bullied by classmates. The bill, which now heads to the Assembly Education Committee for approval, calls for county officials to oversee local school districts […]
Source: NJ.com Zakaria Moustafa, 51, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child he left a 6-year-old girl alone in a vehicle overnight in Jersey City, authorities said yesterday. The girl was unattended in the unlocked vehicle from 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. — roughly nine hours — on June 23, 2019 when […]
Source: CNN.com When my wife Melissa first suggested that I get a vasectomy, I thought she was joking. (We’re all comedians in my family; I’m just the only professional one.) “I’m not doing that,” I responded, though it actually sounded more like, “HEEEEEEEEEELL NO! Why would I do that?!” A vasectomy? It sounded awful. And […]