Leading Stories
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...
In Practice: “Genuine Voices” heals as it teaches
By Jennifer E Chase
After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Berklee School of Music Senior Juri Ify Love chose a community service-based senior project that would change her life as much as those she...
Special education and residential schools gradually disappearing
By Phyllis Hanlon
As states across the country continue to seek ways to reduce costs, services and programs relating to mental health issues often suffer the greatest cuts. In New England, the...