Returning to school is always stressful for kids, parents and school personnel, but the first month of the 180-day journey this Fall, was a novel experience to say the least. Reporting to re-configured plexiglass classrooms left kids disoriented and left everyone else wondering whether kindergarteners and high school students alike would be able to adhere […]
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Despair Can Be Deadlier Than COVID-19, But There’s Help and Hope
Staying home and at least six feet away from others helps limit the spread of COVID-19 and saves lives, but a lack of social connection might paradoxically put people – especially those with pre-existing mental health conditions and substance use disorders – at higher risk of death due to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning. […]
What Will You Produce Today?
What will you produce today? Not how many phone calls you will make or how many Zooms you will log onto. Not how many emails you’ll send. Not how much online research you will do or Tweets to which you’ll respond. What will you produce? Will you complete a blog post or write an article? […]
Without Galas And Dinners, Will Charities Go Hungry?
If this were any other year, our mailboxes would be overflowing with charitable-event invitations and we’d spend the next three months sprinting between Crest Hollow Country Club, Oheka Castle and the Garden City Hotel There’d be small talk, speeches, swag, silent auctions and a nice chicken, fish or vegetarian entrée. Every night of the week. […]
Parental Warning: Benadryl Challenge on TikTok Can Kill Your Kids
The “Benadryl Challenge” is sweeping across TikTok, encouraging teens to ingest high amounts of the over-the-counter allergy medication so they can hallucinate and then broadcast the results to thousands of followers. An Oklahoma teen has reportedly died after doing the online stunt and three teenagers in Texas were hospitalized after attempting the Benadryl Challenge. Benadryl […]
Don’t Forget LI’s Other Deadly Health Crisis
Just as social distancing, masks and hand sanitizer help prevent COVID-19 deaths, community education, timely access to drug treatment and the widespread distribution of naloxone reduce overdose fatalities. But as we marked the 20th annual International Overdose Awareness Day on Monday, the coronavirus and opioid crises have converged and overdose fatalities that have fallen in recent […]
Unfriending and Understanding
As another political convention gets underway this week and tensions in a divided America light up our social media feeds, imagine if instead of trading snarky comments and hovering over the “unfriend” button, we sought, instead, to better understand their worldview? British philosopher Alain de Botton goes further and suggests we break bread with those who […]
Long Island’s Helping Hands Need A Hand, And A Plan
This article first appeared on Innovate LI and the original is linked here. COVID-19 has driven Long Island’s economy into a deep recession, creating budget gaps of more than $750 million in each county and shuttering – perhaps permanently – thousands of “non-essential” small businesses: stores, iconic restaurants, gyms, hair salons and other enterprises. Most […]