Project for homeless addicts shows promising results

The Street Case Management Project in Minneapolis recently won the Thomas M. Wernert Award for Innovation in Community Behavioral Healthcare from the Boston-based Technical Assistance Collaborative Inc. This effort is a client-focused project for homeless people with...

Real-life soap

Some British television viewers evidently take their soap operas too close to heart. After Angie, a character on a BBC soap called Eastenders,' deliberately took an overdose of pills (apparently to gain her husband's attention), self-poisoning cases at...

As cluster suicides take toll of teenagers –

When the space shuttle Challenger swooped down to a perfect landing in mid-October, it should have been a joyous occasion in Clear Lake City, Tex., home to the astronauts and the Johnson Space Center. Instead, the community of 37,000 was in shock-mourning the deaths...