Tag / mental health
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Who Will Take Care of the Homeless?
Dr. Matthew Desmond, critically acclaimed sociology professor and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Evicted, stands before an audience of educated, middle-aged men and women in a Washington D.C. bookstore, giving a heartbreaking, impassioned speech about the worst inequalities and injustices of housing. He fervently pleads, “Do we believe that housing is a fundamental…
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Profit, Self-Worth, and the Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
For many women, applying makeup is as much a part of their daily morning routine as brushing their teeth or eating breakfast. For many, it is a natural part of growing up, usually marked by an unfortunate incident of eyebrow tweezing gone wrong or a particularly dark “emo stage.” But over the years, women have…
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A Warning to David, After Going to the Dentist
BY WALLIS LINKER As of this July, seventeen states have decriminalized non-medical marijuana in some way or another. It appears that as time passes, President Nixon’s 1971 declaration of a hard “war on drugs” is slowly failing. In September 1989, the perception of drug abuse as America’s number one problem was polled at 64%; this…
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The Future of Our Mental Health System
BY VICTORIA SGARRO About ten months ago, a 20-year-old man walked into a Connecticut elementary school and fatally shot twenty children and six adults. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School sparked a renewal of the never-ending national debate over gun rights and violence. As a traumatized country searched for answers, the conversation turned toward…
