Once considered an infection nearly eradicated, congenital syphilis rates have risen dramatically in California. Community health workers fan out across communities to find and treat patients who are often homeless or battling addiction.
Mental Health & Trauma
Lawmakers concerned about New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate of alcohol-related deaths are focused on revising how the state taxes alcohol.
A life fraught with constant change and uncertainty.
Jasmine Cuevas is among millions of parents whose children are struggling with their emotional and mental health.
A life fraught with constant change and uncertainty.
Demand for mental health services for children has swelled as expressions of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts have increased alarmingly.
A reporter shares her own family's struggle with mental illness, and the toll it has taken.
Highly valued, proven effective and undercompensated.
Imperial County officials routinely keep people on psychiatric holds for longer than 72 hours, often in ill-equipped facilities and without a formal hearing that’s required by law, an inewsource investigation found.
Some lawmakers are turning to conservatorships as a possible solution for the state’s homeless crisis, even though the system isn't ready.