Monthly Archive for: ‘December, 2013’
Rose Parade 2014 guide: Your pick for the 11 best places to visit in Pasadena
Rose Parade 2014 guide: Your pick for the 11 best places to visit in Pasadena
If you’re coming to the Rose Parade or the Rose Bowl, welcome to Pasadena: Home to a charming downtown with plentiful shopping and beautiful tree-shaded streets lined with Craftsman bungalows. (It’s also home to KPCC.)
This year, there will be two Rose Bowl games in town: The Jan. 1 bowl game, as well as the national championship on Jan. 6.
Locals can expect tons of tourists to flood Pasadena over the next couple of weeks. That’s why we turned to you and asked: Where should tourists go? What should they know? Below is a collection of things to do, places to visit and top travel tips.
The Best And Worst Ways To Cope With Stress
The Best And Worst Ways To Cope With Stress
By Lauren A. Greene
From natural disasters to overly demanding bosses, our world is filled with stressors. While some research has shown that short bursts of stress can be good for you, a new study out of Ohio State University and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that dealing with persistent, long-term stress (like that from a toxic boss or from caring for an elderly parent) can actually change your genes, leading to an increase in inflammation that can bring on a variety of health issues.
Learning how to cope properly can go a long way for your everyday health. Below find the best and worst ways to de-stress right now.
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Top Drugs Among 8th and 12th Graders Past Year Use
Top Drugs Among 8th and 12th Graders Past Year Use
This year’s Monitoring the Future Survey of drug use and attitudes among American 8th, 10th, and 12th graders continues to provide generally encouraging news, with many forms of drug use holding steady at low levels among the nation’s adolescents; however, concerns persist over the softening of attitudes around some types of drug use, particularly decreases in perceived harm and disapproval of marijuana use and perceived harm of non-medical use of prescription medications such as Vicodin, OxyContin and Adderall.
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At The White House, Learning How Not To Talk About Addiction
At The White House, Learning How Not To Talk About Addiction
Gil Kerlikowske, director of the U.S office of National Drug Control Policy. (The Canadian Press/Pawel Dwulit Via AP)
We don’t refer to someone who has anorexia or bulimia as having a “food abuse” problem. We say they have an eating disorder. So why do we refer to someone who is addicted to alcohol or pain pills as having a “substance abuse” problem?
Harvard’s John Kelly, director of the new Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, made that point this week at what was billed as the first-ever White House summit on drug policy reform. The Obama administration has moved far from the old “war on drugs” model. The current federal drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, wrote in his email invitation to the summit: “Drug policy reform should be rooted in neuroscience, not political science.” And “it should be a public health issue, not just a criminal justice issue. That’s what a 21st-century approach to drug policy looks like.”
Dr. Kelly, an associate professor of psychiatry, spoke to the summit-goers about the stigma around addiction — so pervasive it can even be seen in language. I asked him to elaborate; our conversation, edited:
It seems clear that addiction is not a good thing. It can cause people many problems, even kill them. But you’re saying that the trouble with addiction stigma is that it goes beyond seeing addiction as bad, to actually blaming the addict?
Demi Lavato at “Unite: 4 Good” Event
Demi Lavato at “Unite: 4 Good” Event
With Mike Bloom, December 15th in Los Angeles
