Mental Illness

The kits include naloxone, a life-saving drug that can reverse opioid overdoses, and messages of hope from elementary school students.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month and a time when kids are a few weeks into the school year. One expert says the pressures on young people’s mental health need addressing.

"[This] book will guide you to understand why metabolism and mitochondria are fundamental to keeping your brain healthy." -- Dr. Ana C. Andreazza, professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto

"If you are a high achiever and you know -- you just know -- that you could achieve even more and be happier if you could wrestle your anxiety to the ground, this is your playbook.... Well-researched, highly practical, searingly candid, and deeply empathic." -- Whitney Johnson, author of "Smart Growth"

We offer a discussion of this new report with the executive director of the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative, a Tulsa-based nonprofit.

"[This] book will guide you to understand why metabolism and mitochondria are fundamental to keeping your brain healthy." -- Dr. Ana C. Andreazza, professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto

"Dr. Palmer has written a must-read primer for anyone considering understanding and treating mental health. The book will guide you to understand why metabolism and mitochondria are fundamental to keeping your brain healthy." -- Dr. Ana C. Andreazza, professor of pharmacology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto

Funded by The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, this statewide initiative launched in 2019.

Dr. Christine Montross discusses her well-researched, quite unsettling, and very important book, "Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration."

Dr. Adam Stern, a psychiatrist at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center joins us to discuss his memoir, a candid and engrossing reflection on his residency at Harvard.