America incarcerates more people than any other country in the world both on an absolute and per-capita basis. As of 2012, the U.S. had 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. By comparison, Japan had 63 prisoners per 100,000, Germany had 90, Britain had...
Photo credit: Lloyd Morgan, Flickr Men and women are most likely to have suicidal thoughts within a year of a marriage or de-facto relationship breakup, new ANU research has found. The vulnerability may be due to the trauma of the breakup, along...
Dr. Vincent Fellitti enlightens us to the fact that ACE goes unrecognized because for many of us our adverse childhood experiences are lost in time and protected by shame, by secrecy, and by social taboos against routinely exploring certain realms of...
Quincy, Mass., is a pleasant, working-class city of 92,000 people on Boston’s South Shore. It is saturated with history and, for the past decade or so, saturated with opioids. Deaths from overdose of heroin and prescription opioids more than...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons Crack started rocking America in the 1980s. The form of cocaine, which provides a brief, intense high, peaked in popularity by the end of that decade, but big cities are still struggling with the...
TIME Magazine recently reported on “ The Weird Link Between E-Cigarettes and Mental Health Disorders ”. When you think about it, the link is fairly intuitive (and proven by the ACE study ): people, as it says “suffering from...
TAHLEQUAH — A family, if viewed as a chain, may only be as strong as its weakest link, or member. Add to this weakness a history of mental, physical and/or substance abuse and a vicious cycle emerges. Monday, representatives of more than 10...
What do you do, and what does your organization do? Peter Pollard is the Communication and Professional Relations Director at 1in6 , a national organization that works to provide resources and information to help adult male survivors of sexual abuse...
From the moment Luis E. Mateo started high school in Lowell, Massachusetts, almost ten years ago, he never felt safe. He remembers being bullied almost immediately—first for simply being a scrawny freshman, and later because of his race....
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons An unprecedented research conducted by a group of neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to train brain patterns associated with empathic feelings -- more specifically, tenderness....
While touch always involves awareness, it also sometimes involves emotion. For example, picking up a spoon triggers no real emotion, while feeling a gentle caress often does. Now, scientists in the Cell Press journal Neuron describe a...
Photo Source: WikiMedia Commons A disruption of circadian rhythms, when combined with a high-fat, high-sugar diet, may contribute to inflammatory bowel disease and other harmful conditions, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at...
When poor teenagers arrive at their appointments with Alan Meyers, a pediatrician at Boston Medical Center, he performs a standard examination and prescribes whatever medication they need. But if the patient is struggling with transportation or weight...
Picture of "Little Red School House" I passed along the road. My route took me through Phoenix, Arizona and I had the great fortune and pleasure to meet with some of the staff of Eight Educational Outreach - Kimberly Flack (General Manager of...
Some warning signs are obvious—but others are harder to detect or may be mistaken for normal adolescent rebellion. A new study, presented today at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) found that drug use, in...