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Youth sports are fabulous and injuries will happen—mostly minor. It’s managing pain after more serious injuries that needs careful thought by all students and parents. Why? Nationally, the majority of students who are injured playing sports are treated with prescription pain medication, often based on opioids. And these pain meds are flat-out addictive. Please join Strive Health and a coalition… Read More

As more states legalize use of marijuana, it may not be surprising that use of the drug at the workplace is rising. In fact, it is spiking, increasing 16% since 2014 according to a study from drug test provider Quest Diagnostics. Alarmingly, use of cannabis is up 24% over the last five years in safety sensitive jobs, like airline pilots… Read More

Today we honor the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and hundreds the families who have lost a loved one. Please also see the pages of our sister company Veteran & First Responder Healthcare, a company wholly dedicated to supporting our Veterans, active service people, and first responders. Read More

Four Congresswomen have wasted no time in standing up to fight for the needs of women Veterans and active service people. Improving women vets' mental health support rates high in the list of caucus goals. The Servicewomen and Women Veterans Congressional Caucus (SWWV) was announced on May 15. The caucus is chaired by Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) (pictured upper left), with… Read More

Stephen Curry, super-accurate with the basketball, is about to lead his Golden State Warriors into the 2019 NBA Finals as of this writing. Curry has been spectacular despite a dislocated finger suffered against the Houston Rockets. Curry’s painful taped up finger hasn’t slowed down the superstar on the court, but it has done something which, to Curry could be almost… Read More

“Our lives unfold moment to moment,” wrote Jon Kabat-Zin, one of the first modern advocates of the ancient Buddhist practice of mindfulness. The concept of mindfulness is simple: it means closely paying attention to what is happening to you right now, in the moment, without judging yourself or reacting in any way. In a mindfulness practice, we move through stressful… Read More

It’s May 10, 2019 a single week in which we have witnessed two fatal school shootings, one in a classroom in the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and one at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a K-12 outside Denver, Colorado, only minutes from Columbine High School. Events that were once unthinkable have become a regular part of our lives and… Read More