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15-07-2009
Revellers across Asia who snort the animal tranquiliser ketamine for a hallucinogenic high may face incontinence and other health problems as new dangers of this cheap party drug start showing up in long-term studies.
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15-07-2009
In a letter to The Star, a reader writing under the pseudonym Survivor described her mental ill health as one that needed courage to recognise and treat (see: We did not ask to be mentally ill, so help us).
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15-07-2009
The social stigma of being branded mentally ill is deep-rooted, and bad enough that it can hamper sufferers from receiving the proper care and treatment they need.
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15-07-2009
Only one in 10 cases of child and maid abuse was reported because of society's apathy and bureaucratic red tape, an expert said.Universiti Malaya Psychiatry Department head Prof Mohamad Hussain Habil said studies had shown that the modern-day nucleus family system,
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7-07-2009
Many people do not understand why individuals become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug abuse. They mistakenly view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem and are apt to characterise those who take drugs as morally weak.
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7-07-2009
Chaining mental patients to their beds and leaving them to run in the nude is sheer abuse and inhumane, says Asean Federation for Psychiatry and Mental Health president Prof Dr Mohamad Hussain Habil.
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