In its efforts to curb substance abuse and to support the youth, the SA Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag), in partnership with the department of social development (DSD), launched a special WhatsApp chat group. Sadag project manager Dr…
Businessman shares experience with substance abuse Addictions affect everybody and anybody and we should not be pre-judgemental about people who are addicts. So says Tubs Lingham in a moving Facebook testimonial that has gone viral. Tubs…
South Africa has a critical shortage of mental health services for children and teenagers. This is according to a University of Cape Town and SA Medical Research Council evaluation of the costs of mental services and programmes in the…
South Africans are increasingly hanging, poisoning and shooting themselves because of easy access to instruments of suicide. Death by hanging is one of the most common forms of suicide in SA. “This is because you can basically hang…
