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EDITORIAL: Addressing mental health helps community
Victoria Advocate, TexasScientists often say America is suffering from an epidemic. Last year, there was the West Nile Virus, and leaders often point to the growing obesity problem. But one epidemic we are concerned about is not always widely recognized because not everyone...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, West Nile Virus, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Epidemics and Plagues
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Another way on California's prisons
Gov. Jerry Brown has made it clear how unhappy he is about having to produce a plan to reduce the inmate population of California's prisons by another 9,000. Under the 2011 realignment law, the state has already lowered the prisoner count by 43,000 by...
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, Behavioral Conditions, Politics
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Coaching against new foes
The Sanford Herald, N.C.Moore County native Curtis Frye has coached Olympic gold medalists and, throughout his 17-year career leading the University of South Carolina's track and field program, more than 60 NCAA national champions. At age 61, Frye is not slowing down in...Tags: Celebrities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Auction Service, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease
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Officials trying to stop cycle of repeat jail visits
Daily American Staff WriterIt is hard for inmates to break the cycle of crime — and returning to jail. Somerset County Jail Warden Greg Briggs said at the March jail board meeting that Somerset County has a 41 percent recidivism rate of inmates sent to state prison who...Tags: Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Crime, Law and Justice, Substance Abuse, Trials, Prisons
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Mom of boy, 16, killed by cops: 'He was bipolar, depressed'
Tribune reportersRelatives say a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police after he allegedly fired at people on the street and then at pursuing officers suffered from a bipolar disorder. But they are still at a loss to explain what happened to their "playful,...Tags: Shootings, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Bipolar Disorder, Garry McCarthy, Entertainment
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LETTER: Blinkered Perception Of Mentally Ill
As the sibling of a person who has managed schizophrenia for 40 years, I'm disappointed by Dr. Larry Davidson's op-ed "Mental Illness Fallacies Counterproductive" [April 27, courantopinion.com]. The problem isn't that psychotic people sometimes refuse...Tags: Schizophrenia, Behavioral Conditions
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Parkville man charged in fatal stabbing of mother, wounding of sister
The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old...
Tags: Witnesses, Catonsville, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Hospitals and Clinics, Trials
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Forum to focus on mental illness
Lois Knoke and Sandy Peterson, both of Huron, will be the featured speakers at "In Our Own Voice," a program focused on mental illness, 7 p.m. Thursday at Avera St. Luke's Education Center, 709 Sixth Ave. S.E. The presentation, free and open to the...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health
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LETTER: Denial Of Mental Illness Not Neurological
I can reassure Drs. E. Fuller Torrey and Xavier Amador that I know of their theory linking anosognosia to schizophrenia [May 1, letter, "Neurological Basis For Denying Illness"; and May 3, letter, "Condition Obscures Mental Illness"]. Anosognosia is a...Tags: Schizophrenia, Behavioral Conditions
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LETTER: Condition Obscures Mental Illness
Op-ed writer and psychiatry professor Larry Davidson writes that he is opposed to assisted outpatient treatment because he is not aware of data "that indicate that persons with psychotic disorders refuse treatment because they have a neurological...Tags: Schizophrenia, Behavioral Conditions, Symptoms
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Area residents join crisis intervention team
Twelve skilled, trained and local law enforcement, corrections officers and first-responders are set to graduate as the ninth class of officers of the Laurel Highlands Region Police Crisis Intervention Team. The list of graduates includes: Jeremy...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Health and Medical Professionals, Laws, Law Enforcement
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Costa Mesa man who died in home blast was paranoid of the government
The contents of a long, rambling essay written by a Costa Mesa man who likely blew himself up in an apparent suicide are concerning police, authorities said Monday. The 17,000-word essay, titled “The Pricker: A True Story of Assassination,...
Tags: Schizophrenia, O.J. Simpson, Explosions, Behavioral Conditions, Emergency Incidents
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