mental health
Group sees the disabled as their own best spokespeople
September 25, 2012Marian Bacon has worked at The Memphis Center for Independent Living, an action and advocacy organization for people with disabilities, for over five years.
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U.S. gun culture diagnosed as a social disease
September 25, 2012In the wake of the two mass shootings this summer, some American physicians consider this country's gun violence a social disease.
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Illinois juvenile jails woefully under staffed, report says
July 30, 2010According to a report released Thursday, July 28, by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, the state's eight juvenile detention centers have "serious deficiencies."
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Rally urges city to keep mental health clinics open
August 28, 2009CHICAGO – After dozens of mental health patients and community activists led a rally here, August 27, at City Hall to keep five public mental health clinics open, a top city health official said it has...
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