Subject:

Mental Health

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    The Thin Commandments

    Novel explores the insidious nature of anorexia, bulimia

  • News

    September 2, 1992

    WHO DID ANN ROPER STAB?

    HER HUSBAND HAD 18 PERSONALITIES. SHE SAYS SHE WAS PROTECTING HERSELF AGAINST ONE THAT ATTACKED HER.

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    THE UNTOUCHABLE

    EVERYONE AGREES JOHN SAHHAR DOESN'T BELONG ON THE STREET, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF HIM.

  • News

    November 23, 1995

    Mental Health MASQUERADE

    Litigation over care fo rArizona's mentally ill ended four years ago. Sowhy have private attorneys racked up more than $1 million in fees since then?

  • News

    December 5, 1995

    A MOTHER'S LOVE

    WITH THE STATE OUT OF MONEY, ONE WOMAN WENT TO EXTREMES TO GET HELP FOR HER MENTALLY ILL SON

  • News

    April 11, 1996

    Can Arizona Throw Away the Key?

    Washington state official foresees difficult days for Arizona's new "sexual predators" law

  • News

    June 12, 1997

    Scream Dement

    Washington state official foresees difficult days for Arizona's new "sexual predators" law

  • News

    October 2, 1997

    Deaf and Damned

    If Artie Martinez weren't deaf, he might have talked his way out of the Arizona State Hospital. Instead, he was locked up there for nearly 40 years.

  • Dining

    October 2, 1997

    Could You Become Another Artie Marinez Case?

    If Artie Martinez weren't deaf, he might have talked his way out of the Arizona State Hospital. Instead, he was locked up there for nearly 40 years.

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Insurance, Business Lobbies Loco . . . over attempts to reform health maintenance organizations

    If Artie Martinez weren't deaf, he might have talked his way out of the Arizona State Hospital. Instead, he was locked up there for nearly 40 years.

  • News

    May 6, 1999

    Street Without Hope

    On Madison Street, crowds of crack-addicted homeless are plaguing police and downtown businesses. But no one seems to be doing much about it.

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    The Once and Future Mom

    CPS slammed for severing parental rights while doing little to preserve the family

  • News

    October 20, 2005

    Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 20, 2005

    CPS slammed for severing parental rights while doing little to preserve the family

  • News

    November 8, 2007

    Hot Potato

    When it comes to neighbors, just what legally constitutes a nuisance?

  • Calendar

    October 4, 2007

    Nag, Nag, Nag

    When it comes to neighbors, just what legally constitutes a nuisance?

  • News

    December 8, 2005

    Meth Treatment

    Meth addiction isn't impossible to beat -- but the treatment's not cheap. And good luck finding it

  • News

    November 24, 2005

    Ice, Ice, Baby

    Arizona moms are abusing meth more than any other drug. Want to get them clean, save the family and save tax dollars? Try dangling their kids as the carrot

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Crying Shame

    Carl Gholson was a gifted sax player. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic. He became another victim of Phoenix’s scorching heat

  • News

    October 14, 2004

    Blood on their hands

    Six hours after County mental health officials sent a psychotic man back home, he killed his mother and young niece.

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    Mental Wards

    Mental health care for jail inmates is woeful, commissioner says

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    He'll Be Missed

    A mental-health advocate succumbs to a brain tumor

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Dangerous Minds

    An alleged rape at a county psych ward has Maricopa County acting like a schizophrenic

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Mental Giant

    One of the Valley's most revered mental-health advocates struggles with cancer

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Shrinking Staff

    County jail faces serious shortage of mental health services

  • News

    July 5, 2001

    Kid Row

    Isolated, abused and lacking mental health care, do juvenile offenders leave state custody in worse shape than when they went in?

  • News

    June 28, 2001

    A Mother's Torch

    'Insane' mom sentenced in 1998 burning death of two kids

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    AIDS and Abetting

    Danielle Adair is a mentally ill, AIDS-carrying prostitute. But officials release her to the streets over and over and over again.

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Club Meds

    The mental-health-care system says Lynda Sue Dale, a young mentally ill mother, is ineligible for treatment -- until she informs the bureaucrats she's talking to New Times

  • News

    March 23, 2000

    "Danger to Children"

    Why did Kelly Blake douse her kids with gas and set them on fire? She's seriously mentally ill -- and she was deserted by the system charged with protecting her and her family.

  • News

    July 29, 1999

    License to Stalk

    A judge said Lucia Diaz should be force-medicated to control her psychosis. Instead, she was turned loose to terrorize.

  • Film

    April 10, 1997

    Crazy in Love

    Aussie film Angel Baby looks at the trials of mad love

  • News

    August 22, 1996

    Hangin' With Sheriff Joe

    Two inmates commit suicide in the space of a week; feds had warned Arpaio of unsafe "overhanging structures"

  • News

    July 13, 1995

    THE RULE 11 REVOLVING DOOR

    A LOOPHOLE HAS ALLOWED THE MENTALLY INCOMPETENT TO COMMIT CRIME AFTER CRIME, WITHOUT BEING PUNISHED OR PLACED UNDER SUPERVISION

  • News

    June 1, 1995

    MENTAL HEALTH MASQUERADE

    ARIZONA SET OUT TO CREATE THE BEST MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM MONEY COULD BUY. IT ENDED UP WITH A PROGRAM AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.

  • Dining

    March 2, 1994

    SECOND HELPINGS

    ARIZONA SET OUT TO CREATE THE BEST MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM MONEY COULD BUY. IT ENDED UP WITH A PROGRAM AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.

  • News

    April 28, 1993

    CRUSADER OF THE LOSTATTORNEY CHICK ARNOLD'S CAMPAIGN ON BEHALF OF THE MENTALLY ILL IS ALL UPHILL

    ARIZONA SET OUT TO CREATE THE BEST MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM MONEY COULD BUY. IT ENDED UP WITH A PROGRAM AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    Saving Alex: A Mother Finally Got Desperately Needed Help for Her Troubled Son — By Having Him Arrested

    ARIZONA SET OUT TO CREATE THE BEST MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM MONEY COULD BUY. IT ENDED UP WITH A PROGRAM AS DYSFUNCTIONAL AS THE PEOPLE IT SERVES.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    New ASU Study: Models of All Sizes Drive Down Self-Esteem in Fat Women; Who Woulda Thought?

    www.photobucket.comThese gals may have a little too much self-esteem​A new study conducted by a researcher at Arizona State University, in collaboration with two  researchers at European universities, came to a conclusions about the female psyche: Fat women should never look at a female model ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    Suicidal Tendencies: The Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections Is a Bloody Mess

    www.photobucket.comThese gals may have a little too much self-esteem​A new study conducted by a researcher at Arizona State University, in collaboration with two  researchers at European universities, came to a conclusions about the female psyche: Fat women should never look at a female model ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 21, 2010

    Keep Drinking

    www.photobucket.comThese gals may have a little too much self-esteem​A new study conducted by a researcher at Arizona State University, in collaboration with two  researchers at European universities, came to a conclusions about the female psyche: Fat women should never look at a female model ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2010

    Ibogaine Helps Junkies Kick Heroin and Meth. Is It the Trip That Does the Trick?

    www.photobucket.comThese gals may have a little too much self-esteem​A new study conducted by a researcher at Arizona State University, in collaboration with two  researchers at European universities, came to a conclusions about the female psyche: Fat women should never look at a female model ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 18, 2010

    What Will Become of Van Buren Street's Mahoney Building?

    www.photobucket.comThese gals may have a little too much self-esteem​A new study conducted by a researcher at Arizona State University, in collaboration with two  researchers at European universities, came to a conclusions about the female psyche: Fat women should never look at a female model ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Palin and Tea Party Rhetoric Was Not the Reason Gabrielle Giffords Was Attacked -- America's Treatment of Mental Illness Is to Blame

    ​The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona's Chief Federal Judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 14 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment's pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Ten Rampages by Mentally Ill People Who Bought Guns That Can Teach Lawmakers What to do Next

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2011

    Jan Brewer's Response to Jared Loughner? Slash Services from an Already Beleaguered Mental-Health System

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2011

    Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 27, 2011

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 4th, 2011

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

  • News

    September 1, 2011

    Why Did the Arizona Department of Corrections Put a Mentally Ill Man in a Cell With a Convicted Killer?

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

  • News

    September 15, 2011

    Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 15th, 2011

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2011

    Cafe 54 in Tucson Is the Real Face of Mental Illness in Arizona, Not Jared Loughner

    Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

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