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How to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and Grooming, with Feather Berkower
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9 more ways to show your friends you love them, recommended by NPR listeners
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Reducing sexual violence could be key in reducing rates of teenage mental ill-health
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Loneliness and unhappiness may accelerate aging faster than smoking
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Link – The mentally ill are sick. So why do we put them in jail?
The story in Canada is the same story we see everywhere else. We put people struggling with their mental health in jail because they are inconvenient and we don’t have anywhere else to put them. That there are no other available treatment options aside from throwing them in prison, possibly the worst thing we could…
Sharing – LA County Officials Grapple With Inmates Suffering From Mental Health Issues
On a much-discussed topic around this blog, I found this NPR feature to be a very worthwhile read. Not only doers it define one of the huge problems with mental health care in the US, but it goes to talk about some solutions: “It has put the jails in an awkward position. Today the three…
