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In California, foster youth need long-term, consistent care. It requires more commitment than simply prescribing medications.
A doctor who lost both parents to suicide on how he has learned to cope with the anniversaries of their deaths.
Four former foster youth, now adults, talk about how psychiatric medications impacted their childhoods, and life after meds.
A psychologist writes to say that our report on a randomized clinical trial for Therabot, an AI therapy chatbot, overlooked ...
An exclusive interview with Bandy X. Lee, a prominent psychiatrist who risked her career to warn the public of Trump’s mental unfitness for office.
Kory Gonzales’s childhood and adolescence were defined by trauma, foster-care placements, loneliness – and a vast array of psychiatric medications. It wasn’t until he became a young adult that he took ...
Prescribing to foster youth of psych meds has fallen since judges were tasked with oversight. Still, says one, "constant vigilance" is needed.
Caregiving 'unlocks new parts of yourself' and expands who you are, even if it is often lonely and exhausting.
A leaked document from the Trump administration's budget office reveals plans for massive cutting of mental health and addiction programs. And demonstrators protested Trump policies in 700 rallies.