This KHN story also ran in The Philadelphia Inquirer. It can be republished for free. Six months into the Affordable Care Act, local mental-health and substance-abuse professionals have yet to see an uptick in clients using their new benefits....
Does marijuana smoking cause psychosis? Or could psychosis drive pot smoking? If you believe the panned and parodied 1936 film "Reefer Madness," smoking weed will make one crazy and drive you to a life of crime. Medical science has taken the...
In Wednesday's paper, Lisa Rodrigues CBE, who is stepping down as Chief Executive of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, has spoken of her experience of openly discussing her mental health condition within a professional environment. In...
PBS News Hour’s Judy Woodruff reported on a nationwide FBI operation over the past week that recovered 168 victims of child sex trafficking. Announced by FBI Director James Comey, the operation spanned over 100 cities and is responsible for...
After a teenager was arrested and charged last week with fatally stabbing a fellow student outside their Bronx middle school, two troubled young lives came into public view. There were signs of instability in each 14-year-old boy’s home, and...
The need to regulate restraint and seclusion in our nation’s schools just gained significant momentum with the release of a new report and an NPR article that highlights the need for immediate action. ProPublica analyzed data released by the...
Walla Walla WA: The study of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) has become a well-known effort to assess relations between childhood mistreatment and later-life health and well-being. The ACE Study , a collaboration between the Centers for...
Fighting with friends and family may have more lasting effects than just ruining your day. In a study released May 28, psychologists Rodlescia Sneed and Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University found that negative social interactions can increase...
We Are the Youth is a photographic journalism project chronicling the individual stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth in the United States. Through photographic portraits and "as told to" interviews in the...
Delinquent children are much more likely than their nondelinquent peers to die violently later in life, a study finds. And girls who ended up in juvenile detention were especially vulnerable, dying at nearly five times the rate of the general...
A Montreal man says he feels vindicated after winning $33,000 in a racial profiling case against the Montreal police. Four years after a police officer dragged him out of a car and fined him for "wandering without being able to justify his presence,"...
America's children are already getting too much sugar and consuming too many calories. Now they're also getting an excess of vitamins and minerals in their food. According to a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 45 percent of...
Blacks have the highest risk of dying from colon cancer, according to the CDC . And a new study suggests one of the possible reasons why. Researchers analyzed information from 503 patients in the North Carolina Colon Cancer Study . They...
A congressional committee has begun investigating why child abuse and neglect persists on North Dakota’s Spirit Lake reservation, almost two years after the federal government stepped in to address the problem. At a hearing on Tuesday, tribal...
Fewer than one in five city schools ’fessed up to even a single incident of bullying on a new tracking system run by the state — proof, advocates say, that Education Department officials and principals have failed to address a dangerous...