Leading Stories
Talk therapy on the decline, study says
By Pamela Berard
Talk therapy is on the decline, while more Americans with mental health conditions are being treated with drugs alone, according to a new study.
The results, reported in...
Introspection, respect, heals youth drug addiction at CASTLE
By Jennifer E Chase
Self respect, and the respect we elicit from family and peers, is often the common missing denominator among kids who use drugs to salve pain. A program in Brockton, Mass.,...
Learn to Cope becomes addiction‘school’ for parents
By Jennifer E Chase
She’ll probably downplay the whole thing by saying it started by accident. She’ll probably tell you that the majority of the site is written by her only because she...
Early detection equals improved outcomes even for psychosis
By Nan Shnitzler
At Massachusetts General Hospital’s First-Episode and Early Psychosis Program (FEPP), they like to say, forget what you know about schizophrenia.
“People...
Report shows that older adults are abusing drugs
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Drug addiction is often thought to be the scourge of the young. A new report, however, shows that substance abuse is becoming a greater concern among Americans over 50 years...
Cough medicines to stay available
By Nan Shnitzler
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 15 to nine to continue to allow cough medicines containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to be sold over the counter despite...
Q&A: Spotlight shines on investigative psychology
By Catherine Robertson Souter
A brutal murder. An overwhelmed and understaffed police force. A vicious killer that no one can pinpoint. No one, that is, until the investigative psychologist comes on board....
Q&A: Human trafficking is focus of cross cultural work
By Catherine Robertson Souter
It shouldn’t happen but it does. Human trafficking is one crime that we imagine happens in the shadowy alleys or dirt poor towns of third world countries, where local...
Fire-setting: an under-addressed issue
By Phyllis Hanlon
In 2008, 30,500 fires were set, resulting in 315 deaths and $866 million in loss, according to the United States Fire Administration (USFA). Even more alarming, Federal Bureau...
Arts programs make inroads with DYS students
By Jennifer E Chase
The Mass. Department of Education holds youth who are serving time in juvenile detention centers to the same state-mandated compliance standards as their counterparts “on...