Mental Health

Health & Safety

3 people share how they lived through the pandemic with a serious mental illness

5:01am May 30, 2022

More than one in 20 Americans struggled with serious mental illness before the pandemic dealt a blow to the world's mental health. How have these people have fared?

The trauma of gun violence affects all children, not just the ones who were there

5:10pm May 27, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, author of the book Children Under Fire, about the immediate and long-term affects of gun violence on children.

Can potential teen shooters be guided away from an act of violence?

4:37pm May 26, 2022

by Rhitu Chatterjee

For many of the young people who've opened fire in schools, the path to violence has common traits. Psychologists and researchers have developed a body of study on the topic.

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NC school districts offer tips to help talk about school violence after Texas shooting

5:06pm May 25, 2022

by Keri Brown

Local school districts are responding to a recent mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas.

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Uvalde school shooting is another reminder of children's feelings of trauma

7:41am May 25, 2022

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Dr. Melissa Brymer of the UCLA/Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, about what to do for children after Tuesday's school shooting in Texas.

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How schools and the Biden administration are prioritizing student mental health

4:27pm May 24, 2022

Schools and the federal government are trying to provide the kinds of mental health support that many families either can't find, or can't afford.

A man uses a safe injection site in New York City in January. A bill in California would allow pilot sites in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles.

California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs

5:01am May 23, 2022

by Lesley McClurg

Advocates of the proposal say it would prevent overdoses, slow the spread of HIV and inspire drug users to seek help, while proponents say safe injection sites would create an "open drug scene."