Mental Health

More Combat Veterans Are Falling Prey to Gambling Addictions

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

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

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

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

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 27, 2011

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

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

Keep Drinking

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

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 >>

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

The Thin Commandments

Novel explores the insidious nature of anorexia, bulimia

Hot Potato

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

Nag, Nag, Nag

Meth Treatment

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

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

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 20, 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

Blood on their hands

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

Mental Wards

Mental health care for jail inmates is woeful, commissioner says

He'll Be Missed

A mental-health advocate succumbs to a brain tumor

Dangerous Minds

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

Mental Giant

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

Shrinking Staff

County jail faces serious shortage of mental health services

Kid Row

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

A Mother's Torch

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

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.

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

"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.

License to Stalk

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

The Once and Future Mom

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

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.

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

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.

Could You Become Another Artie Marinez Case?

Scream Dement

Crazy in Love

Aussie film Angel Baby looks at the trials of mad love

Hangin' With Sheriff Joe

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

Can Arizona Throw Away the Key?

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

A MOTHER'S LOVE

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

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?

THE UNTOUCHABLE

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

THE RULE 11 REVOLVING DOOR

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

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.

SECOND HELPINGS

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