September is Self-Care Awareness Month. Also, this month marks the six-year anniversary of this Self-Care, A-Z blog. Since its inception, this blog has discussed a range of topics that inform and promote wholistic, expansive self-care. As articulated in its initial post, the blog is a forum for sharing successes, struggles, and strategies-with dozens of guest contributors.

WESTPORT - A local nonprofit partnered with town officials on International Overdose Awareness Day Wednesday as part of the town's effort to fight the dangers of opioids. Positive Directions, a state-licensed outpatient treatment center, held a naloxone training event to educate residents about the risks of opioids and counterfeit drugs, and to inform them about the benefits of naloxone, commonly known by the brand name Narcan.

An alarming article in the New York Times yesterday described the use of multiple medications to treat young people with psychiatric problems. The story centered on a teenage girl who was prescribed 10 different medications over the period of four years - as many as seven of them at the same time - and a young woman who was put on eight at once.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - If you're younger than 21, you should still be able to buy a can of whipped cream in New York. You just can't buy a whippet, or whip-it, a small nitrous oxide-filled charger used to aerosolize the dessert topping. On Monday afternoon, Democratic state Sen.