Big Pharma Doubled Price Of Lifesaving Drug After They Lost Their A** In A Settlement
Natalie Dailey
In 2014, over 28,600 people died of opiate overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via the Daily Beast.
We actually have an antidote for this, and have for 30 years. There is...
Veterans can't get help from the VA, because the resources aren't there. It has been estimated 22 veterans commit suicide each day.
Suicidal ideation, or suicidal thoughts, are much more common than most people realize. In...
Keaton Farris was only 25 when he died in April.
Farris, a Native American who had been arrested on a charge of identity theft after he cashed a stolen check for $350 in March, died as...
Last night, I told you that the obituary for Colleen McCullough that ran in Friday's edition of The Australian was arguably one of the most sexist items ever to appear in a newspaper. Whoever wrote...
Ted Cruz is known for making mildly insane noises as he makes his run for the U.S. presidency.
On Thursday afternoon, Ted Cruz angrily said,
“Republicans need to act like Republicans. Leadership needs to lead. Together, we...
Latest Victim Found Murdered, 3 Brutal Crimes Against The Homeless In San Diego Within 24 Hours
Sarah Scott
Around 6 a.m. on July 4, a man was found murdered in Robb Athletic Field in the Ocean Beach neighborhood of San Diego, Calif.. This may be the third victim in what is believed to...
West Virginia Cop Sues For Being Fired Over Refusing To Shoot Mentally Ill Black Man (VIDEO)
Ted Millar
In America today, we sentence to prison people who chuckle at the Attorney General. We incarcerate more people than any other nation on the planet. And we fire police officers who refuse to shoot mentally...
When beloved actor Robin Williams died, it shook the world and shifted how we perceive clinical depression and mental illness. How could the funniest guy in the world be depressed? The fact is, depression has...
Addiction
Medical and psychological professionals agree that addiction is a disease. The disease causes a craving that the sufferer can't deny. The person feels compelled to engage in that behavior, even when it is harmful to...
Earlier this week, Andrew wrote a great piece with photos of the nightmarish devices used to restrain and torment the mentally ill in ages past. When I shared his article, one of my friends directed...
5 Heartbreaking Videos Give Us Glimpse Into The Suffering Of The Mentally Ill That Are Homeless
Tiffany Willis Clark
I've been writing a lot about homelessness lately. It has always been an issue I've cared deeply about. Perhaps it's because I spent the formative years of my youth in the late 80's and early...
16-Year-Old Boy Convicted Of Raping, Murdering High School Math Teacher In Bathroom
Robert L. Franklin
On Oct. 22, 2013, Philip Chism, then 14-years-old, followed 24-year-old high school math teacher Colleen Ritzer into a bathroom at Danvers High School in Danvers, Mass. He proceeded to rape her, then stab her repeatedly...
Two years ago, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told CNN Donald Trump’s isolated, erratic, and delusional behavior was presenting a dangerous situation.
Raskin, therefore, supported a bill to establish a bipartisan panel with Vice President Mike Pence to invoke...
Trump Stops Pretending His Medical Letter Was Legit, Tweets ‘Medical Records’ Challenge To Hillary (TWEET/VIDEO)
Kay Smythe
It looks like Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has finally almost admitted his medical letter was not real.
Trump's doctor, Harold Bornstein, who rose to fame after the bizarre medical letter he wrote went viral, told NBC news...
14 Congressional Members Shot Over Politics – Steve Scalise Makes 3rd Republican (DETAILS)
Ted Millar
There's always at least one person in a political debate to throw out the "Both sides do it" meme. But this mainly applies to corporate lobbying and influence, of which both Republicans and Democrats are unfortunately...
Political communications expert and doctoral candidate at University of Massachusetts, Matthew MacWilliams, is writing his dissertation on a particular personality trait. In a series of recent polls, he collected information from over 1,800 registered voters...
The landscape of the US has never been more divided along political fault lines as in this election cycle. It comes as no surprise then, that cross-party support for initiatives such as the Trans Pacific Partnership...
So, once again, here we are. Following yet another mass shooting, this time at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., we're having our all too frequent "conversation" about gun violence, gun rights, and all things...
Depression is a terrible disease. The hopelessness, the guilt, the apathy, or just the overwhelming sadness is brutal. Many people with depression also experience physical symptoms as well: headaches, muscle pain, chest pain, digestion problems,...