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By Carolyn Krause, The Oak Ridger, October 2, 2019 A teenaged girl suffers a knee injury while playing varsity basketball and has an operation. About the same time her older brother has his four wisdom teeth extracted. To block their pain, her surgeon and his dentist prescribe hydrocodone, a powerful narcotic pill. Their parents, who never took such potent painkillers when their wisdom teeth were removed, worry that the opioids their kids are taking might lead them down the path to drug...

By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August 9, 2019 PURPOSE The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize elevates the compelling stories of community members throughout the country who are working together in new ways so that everyone can live their healthiest life possible, regardless of who they are or how much money they make. A Culture of Health recognizes that where we live—such as our access to affordable homes, quality schools, and reliable transportation—affects how long...

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By K. Hecht, P. Berman & A. Hosack Why is my teacher being so mean? She can’t make me do it. Mom, please don’t make me. Davy was dragging his book bag on the sidewalk as he trudged home. He had enjoyed school today until the end. That terrible last few minutes when the teacher said, “Father’s Day is coming up soon. Everyone is to draw a picture of their dad at home and bring it in to class to share tomorrow.” Davy couldn’t help himself, he just bounced out of his chair and yelled, “I...

"[Questioning Psychology] articulates the soul of the helping relationship"

By Joshua Benton, NiemanLab, September 30, 2019 People should consume news, right? I mean, that’s the underlying assumption of everything we do: that the work journalists do is valuable and important, and that the value and importance grows the more people read, watch, or listen to their work. If that’s true, what do we do with the fact that consuming news makes so many people feel so bad? Does that mean we’re doing our job, accurately reflecting a deeply screwy world for our audience? You...

By Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, Inc., October 1, 2019 Interest in trauma-informed approaches across child-serving systems has surged in the past two decades. This interest has largely been in response to research showing that most children experience at least one potentially traumatic event by the age of 17 years 1 , together with the strong relation between childhood trauma exposure and problems with health, mental health, and other concerns across the life span. 2...

By Theodore M. Brown, American Journal of Public Health, September 4, 2019 This special section marks an important but troubling anniversary in US history, the arrival in October 1619 of 20 unfree African laborers who were brought as indentured servants. By the 1660s indentured servants were displaced and numerically overwhelmed by African slaves, who over the next two centuries helped build the US economy through the institution of chattel slavery. The six contributions to this section take...

By Greg Toppo, LA School Report, September 30, 2019 In 2013, attorneys at the California Innocence Project, weighed down by a backlog of casework, turned for help to an unusual group: humanities students at High Tech High Chula Vista, a nearby charter school. The students, all juniors, trained on a past case handled by the San Diego nonprofit, which reviews pleas from prisoners who maintain that they’re innocent. Then, in teams of three or four, the students reviewed prisoners’ files and...

By Jacob Margolis, LAist, September 30, 2019 We spent one full week writing about climate change, and encouraged you to stop screaming into the void and to scream your questions at us instead. More than 140 of you did, and we've been working on getting them answered. Below is a roundup of a few Q&As about what's happening to Earth. [ Please click here to read more .]

By A. Hosack, K. Hecht & P. Berman Davy wasn’t dead. But that nightmare could come true. I don’t want to kill Davy or anyone else’s kid. Larry arrived at the booth on-time, as usual. Martin was already sitting at the back. He said he just wanted to keep Larry company for a while, but Larry knew something was up. Martin being in his booth meant his own would be closed. It must be because of the dream. Larry had controlled himself well around the gang, saying what he figured they wanted to...

By P. Berman, A. Hosack & K. Hecht Davy don’t. Davy stop please stop. NO! Larry is having a nightmare. He is at the end of a long, dark alley. At the very end is a 13- year-old Davy, about to shoot up what will be a fatal dose of heroin. Larry is running down the alley towards Davy, trying to reach him before the needle enters his arm. Larry is trying to yell at the top of his voice, but it is coming out in a whisper that Davy couldn’t possible hear. Where is Claire? Why didn’t she keep...