The latest numbers show that deaths from heroin-related overdose more than tripled nationally between 2002 and 2013. Opiate addiction touches every demographic: white, black, Hispanic, rural, suburban and urban. Proposed solutions...
Many illnesses are contagious. You'd do well to avoid your neighbor's sneeze, for example, and to wash your hands after tending to your sick child. But what about mental illness? The idea that anxiety, autism or major depression could be...
Hurricane Katrina caused widespread devastation and loss of life, and many of those whose homes were destroyed or severely damaged fled New Orleans. In the months that followed, many of the city's poorest families got even more bad news: The...
The prisoner spent a fitful August night trying to tune out the howls and moans of inmates in adjoining cells. He did not stir from his thin sleep mat until well after 1 p.m. A breakfast of cold grits waited in a slot in the reinforced steel...
I've got a chance next month to speak with a large agency that serves 30,000 people who have in one or more ways been seriously impacted by trauma as adult or child or both in the very recent or not so recent past. The focus of my talk is on...
http://blog.dc4k.org | ljacobs@dc4k.org Why do kids of divorce ask, “Who am I?” Posted on August 13, 2015 by Linda Jacobs Imagine looking like your father and being proud of that fact. Perhaps at...
Jeff Putthoff, S.J., is a Jesuit priest who has lived and worked in Camden, N.J. for the last 18 years. He is the founder and outgoing executive director of Hopeworks ’N Camden , a youth technology program that teaches web...
Free cash is in the works for a growing number of Dutch urbanites. After the city of Utrecht announced that it would give no-strings-attached money to some of its residents, other Dutch cities are getting on board for social...
New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi has exposed the horrifying network of sexual slavery built and run by terrorists from the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL. Reporting from Iraq and Syria, Callimachi, an ...
At a Basque restaurant nestled in the green hills just outside the Spanish city of Bilbao, head cook Itziar Eguileor gestures toward a dumpster out back. "This all used to go into the garbage," she says, lugging a huge pot of leftover boiled...
Chicago's police missed the mark with their safety tips. Here's what they could have done. Crawling back from a generation of corruption needs to be handled with care. On Aug. 7, 2015, the Chicago Police Department offered some "tips" on...
After weeks of alternately tense and heated public meetings about the proposed construction of a prisoner re-entry center in Jersey City, New Jersey, the controversial plan has finally been scrapped . The New Jersey Parole...
Earlier this summer, President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. Reflecting on his conversation with six inmates, he said : When they describe their youth and their childhood, these are young people who...
This therapeutic technique can really help depressed people, research finds. A technique called ‘Socratic questioning’ can help depressed people recover, a new study finds. Socratic questioning is used by many...