Nearly one in 10 full-time workers in the United States has had a recent substance abuse problem, a new government study reveals. Analysis of data gathered between 2008 and 2012 from more than 111,500 adults with full-time jobs revealed that 9.5...
A group of men in the vanguard of a new model of housing for chronically homeless people with mental illnesses sat around a small conference table eating pizza recently in Leavenworth. It was the monthly social gathering for residents of the...
There's a classic marketing theory that when you put two words or ideas together enough, consumers will form an implicit association—and even act. I say "peanut butter," you think, "jelly." I play French music in my grocery store, you buy...
If college admissions brochures are to be believed, American universities are thriving havens of not only racial diversity but also of racial harmony. Diverse student groups study and socialize together in marketing photos where everyone...
Local groups are working together to spread the word on preventing child mistreatment and promoting well-being in keeping with Child Abuse Awareness Month in April. ACE Overcomers, a program that aims to help teens and adults overcome the...
This past February, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers knocked on an apartment door in Vancouver, Wash., looking for a man named Adam Crapser. A 39-year-old former barbershop owner and auto-insurance claims estimator, Crapser was...
The ex-Patriot, now convicted of one murder and suspected in others, had just gotten over his father’s untimely death and signed an NFL contract when his mother was stabbed. Editor's Note: This story was updated after Hernandez was found...
Cynthia Germanotta, president of Born This Way Foundation and mother of Lady Gaga, writes about raising her unique daughter and the Emotion Revolution, launched with Yale. As a mom, it’s difficult to watch your child struggle. Whether the...
It was a century ago that Beverly Kiohawiton Cook’s relative was taken from his family and shipped off to Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Those years at school, days of travel away from family and forbidden to use native dress and...
In a sense all courts solve problems, although traditionally, the approach is punitive – translating a crime into how many months or years a defendant owes society and warehousing him or her in a prison. While not excusing drug abuse, domestic...
++ Where would childhood trauma go if it belonged, completely unresolved, to someone who later becomes a parent except on down to their children? Trauma, I believe, continues to survive and perpetuate itself until the lessons that it has to...
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is supporting a proposed $5.5 million reparations package for victims of police torture in the 1970s and '80s. NPR's Cheryl Corley tells our Newscast unit that more than 100 people are eligible for reparations,...
One of the great themes that threads its way through Toni Morrison’s work like a haunting melody is the hold that time past exerts over time present. In larger historical terms, it is the horror of slavery and its echoing legacy that her...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — I OPENED the curtain and found my patient stretched out flat on the recliner, one arm thrown across his eyes. Worried, I reached for his pulse, but then I heard a soft snore. He was sound asleep, before...
Dana Lam was insured under her parent's health plan until the end of 2014, thanks to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to stay on family health insurance until they turn 26. The arrangement worked out well until...