Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem. Doctors can do more to treat it.
Mental Health
An average of more than five Marines per year died by suicide at Camp Pendleton. At least 20 took their lives in the barracks – and another four during training exercises.
The goal is to shift calls away from police. But as the launch begins, most communities are not prepared.
The first in a three-part series following the intergenerational effects that the United States government’s century and a half practice of placing Indian children in boarding schools has had on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Leena met her firstborn daughter 22 years after she was kidnapped as a baby. But it was not the reunion she had hoped for.
With everything at stake, former LA gang members forge a new path at Homeboy Industries.
The trauma of losing a parent is an incalculable loss for a child anywhere, but the fallout is far greater for those kids forced into institutional care.
The suicide crisis among veterans has been well documented. But another dark phenomenon exists just beneath the surface in San Diego and across the country.
This story was produced as part of a larger project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 Data Fellowship. Research shows that living near trees brings important health and community benefits.
This project was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism....