Mental Health

Most elderly and disabled people prefer home- or community-based care. It's also cheaper, but state and federal policy often favors the assisted-living industry. Now, activists are speaking up.

Senate Democratic aides said that there is likely to be at least one mental health bill offered as an amendment to the larger gun package.

Capitalism is a system of power in blatant opposition to democracy.

Medical debt and bankruptcy are uniquely American experiences among wealthy nations.

Michael Rumacker's new memoir, Robert Duncan in San Francisco, provides a harrowing picture of what life was like for a homosexual man in that city before the Castro became …

Dr. Joy DeGruy explores African-American history, cultural behavior and the trauma of slavery and racism's impacts on African-Americans and society as a whole.

The FDA has not examined clinical studies, so optimal doses are undefined, and contra-indications are unevaluated.

Four of Obama's 23 executive actions on gun control target mental health explicitly.

Laura Delano reflects on her own issues with mental health as the country places her and people like her in the crossfires of the gun reform debate.

If serious mental illnesses are highly heritable, wouldn't the sterilization and murder of such people diminish their prevalence?