A study of 689 parents and 174 teachers across all grades by VitalSmarts found that parents and teachers are not talking to each other about important topics like drug use, mental health and changes in family dynamics. The study by New...
The Business of Recovery is a documentary focusing on the rehab industry, which I understand is huge. And if you are like me, you have a lot of secondhand experience with recovery and the claims made to entice or scare people into a rehab clinic....
If you have kids, you already know that the cute little humans come with a host of unavoidable costs—especially if you live in a big city. A new tool developed by the Economic Policy Institute adds up these...
Lisa Pryor has spent the majority of her 31 years abusing drugs. She began experimenting with pot and alcohol in elementary school and using meth at 17. When she was 23, she began using opiates. Her drug of choice was morphine but like most...
S ometime in the summer of 2016, if all goes according to plan, Marilee Roloff will retire as CEO of the Eastern Washington and North Idaho chapter of Volunteers for America with a big party. It won't be a celebration of her 31 years with...
Sonoma County supervisors appear ready to embark on an ambitious campaign to wipe out homelessness, envisioning a regional effort supported by local cities and public-private partnerships to create new affordable housing for an estimated 2,000...
Prairie Care’s new 50 bed hospital for Children’s mental health is a tiny step in providing badly needed services for the traumatized children passing through Minnesota institutions. HCMC alone sees 800 to 1000 emergency...
Many of them were dangerous beyond their years, guilty of blood-splattered homicidal mayhem that most people would associate only with a Hollywood script. Others were wretchedly troubled, acting out assaultive sexual impulses born of twisted...
David Hogue isn’t sure that he should tell me his name. He sits in a back office in the shelter where he has lived for the past 18 months, hands folded neatly in his lap. It isn’t that he doesn’t want to talk. He tells me...
In a 1956 cover story marking the centenary of Sigmund Freud's birth, Time celebrated the Viennese physician as the father of American psychiatry. While the magazine acknowledged that fewer than 10% of the nation's 9,000 psychiatrists were...
Two decades ago, the people of this tiny village came to terms with what had become increasingly obvious: They could no longer fight back the rising waters. Their homes perched on a low-lying, treeless tuft of land between two rivers on...
Take a deep breath. Metaphorically, it means pause for a moment, take a break, calm down, collect yourself and take a second to reconsider your next action (or reaction). But it's good -- or even better -- to take it literally. Deep breathing is good...
“For decades, the first ladies exhibition has been one of the most popular attractions at the Smithsonian Institution. It is beloved by visitors who come to admire the famous collection of gowns and to learn about the contributions made...
A black judge in Mississippi claims he was removed from office following years of resistance from a mostly white legal system to his push to treat drug offenders instead of imprisoning them. Justice Court Judge Rickey...
This story is the second in a three-part series. Ana B. Ibarra’s reporting on community violence and its effects on health was undertaken as a fellow of the California Health Journalism Fellowship at USC’s Annenberg School of...