MICHAEL JACKSON’S ADDICTION / MENTAL ILLNESSES MORE COMMON AMONG BLACKS

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 4, 2009 -- Oscar Bamuhigire
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MICHAEL JACKSON’S ADDICTION AND MENTAL ILLNESSES MORE COMMON AMONG BLACKS

Michael Jackson’s addictions and severe mental illnesses, including one referred to in psychiatry as alienation of the existential self, are more common among black people than any other race. The root cause of this phenomenon has been attributed to centuries of conditioning as a result of the slave trade and oppression. These facts are well explained by Oscar Bamwebaze in The Healing Power Of Self Love (504 pp., $30.95).

Oscar Bamwebaze goes a head to reveal that, even though 1 in 2 Americans has a diagnosable mental disorder each year, and 81 Americans commit suicide every day, of all the races in the United States, the African Americans rank highest in psychopathology, alcoholism, and self destruction…70 to 75% of the nation’s 2 million heroin addicts are black! African Americans account for 39% of the drug abuse related emergency room visits reported to the Drug Abuse Warning Network of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since 1980, the suicide rates among young black males has doubled, and African Americans are more likely to experience a mental disorder than their white counterparts… somatization is more common among African Americans than among whites. Unlike the other races, African Americans experience culture-bound syndromes such as isolated sleep paralysis. Over 25% of African American youth exposed to violence meet the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among Vietnam War veterans, 21% of black veterans, compared to 14% of non-Hispanic white veterans, suffer from PTSD…

OSCAR BAMWEBAZE has more than twelve years of experience as an alcohol and drug addiction counselor. He has a degree in Psychology from Makerere University, and training in the Therapeutic Community model from DAYTOP International, New York, U.S.A (America’s oldest and largest drug treatment program). In 2003, he represented Africa at an international symposium on addiction held in Rome, the Vatican, where he personally met Pope John Paul II. Oscar Bamwebaze suffered from alcoholism for ten years, but recovered in 1995 after he joined a 12 step group. He currently lives in Uganda, where he works as an addiction counselor in private practice.

ISBN: 9781440101373

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