Subject: Mental Health

• When Mom Pops

  June 28, 2007

• Free Housing For Mentally Ill Inmates Proposed

  August 27, 2008

• Nowhere to Land

  Crisis care for the mentally ill crumbles under the weight of not enough money, too much beauracracy

  August 24, 2000

• It Wasn't The First Time Wife Had Tried To Kill Her UH Prof Husband

  Kristen Dewald was charged with murdering her husband – a University of Houston professor – about a year ago, and according to new documents filed today, Dewald had attempted to kill her husband with a pair of scissors about three weeks earlier. Officers arrested Dewald for that stabbing, and after she reported hearing voices that commanded her to kill, she was taken to the Harris County Psychiatric Center for evaluation and treatment. "[She] really felt like she had to get rid of him

  November 20, 2008

• Drunk, But Not Disorderly

  May 12, 1994

• Psychotic Reaction

  October 6, 1994

• Diagnosis

  July 6, 1995

• Ritalin on Trial

  January 4, 1996

• Press Picks

  August 21, 1997

• Heal Thyself

  September 3, 1998

• Is Harris County Jail the Place for A Mentally Troubled Teen?: Mind-sets

  Not everyone buys into crisis intervention for the mentally ill

  December 11, 2008

• Is Harris County Jail the Place for A Mentally Troubled Teen?

  Laura Howard got tossed into a jail treatment program, but it was the wrong one for someone whose mental health was in tatters

  December 11, 2008

• Reality Check

  Houston is scrambling for psychiatric and emergency medical services. But hoping for better state funding is just another psychotic episode.

  July 25, 2002

• Gone to Hell: Mental Illness and Harris County Jail

  Even though Alexander Hatcher is bipolar and schizophrenic, he wasn't given his meds for his first three months in jail. He got in fights with the guards. Now he's sentenced to prison for a long, long time.

  August 21, 2008

• Mental Anguish for West Oaks Hospital

  West Oaks Story

  May 29, 2008

• Do You Have Multiple Personality Disorder?

  Years after Sybil, the debate continues

  April 17, 2008

• FotoFest: "Independent Documentary Photography 1985-2008"

  Lu Nan is a camera-wielding humanist

  April 3, 2008

• Paul Miles, Iraq and PTSD

  January 31, 2008

• Board and Care(less)

  When it comes to housing the mentally disabled, is better-than-nothing good enough?

  July 6, 2000

• Baby Blues

  Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

  September 14, 2006

• Against All Odds

  A group of unsupervised mental patients running from Katrina made it from New Orleans to Houston. Victor Fruge led the way.

  November 3, 2005

• Cranked

  Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

  September 1, 2005

• Psyched Out

  VA nurses say a new rule that they be able to physically subdue unruly mental patients was just an excuse to get rid of them

  July 7, 2005

• Insanely Guilty

  A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.

  January 20, 2005

• Beggars Can't Be Choosers

  Parents plead with the state not to shut down the state schools for the mentally retarded. But it looks like a done deal.

  November 18, 2004

• Getting Out

  Too scared to leave her house, Sandy has one last chance: a county crisis team that will come to her

  February 26, 2004

• Law and Disorder

  Films that look at madness in the eyes of the law

  February 5, 2004

• Letters

  October 9, 2003

• A Hanging Offense

  Did the Devereux Treatment Center provide the care Cecilia Garrett needed or did it drive the young teenager to her death?

  April 24, 2003

• Deal of a Lifetime

  Drug addicts can get hard cash to be sterilized or go on birth control. Is it ridding the world of unwanted babies -- or just ducking the underlying problems of abusers?

  February 27, 2003

• Judging Rory

  Jurist Rory Olsen can put you in a mental institution and cost you hefty court fees. Critics wonder whether he can handle the job. Big deal -- he's a bottom-of-the-ballot Republican.

  October 31, 2002

• Common Cents

  Area housing for the mentally ill remains deplorable, but a state subsidy might improve conditions

  June 20, 2002

• Protective Wrapping

  Programs surround a kid and his family with services, hoping for success

  November 8, 2001

• Sick Kids

  For many mentally ill teenagers in Texas, the only way to get treatment is to get arrested.

  November 8, 2001

• Best Consumer Advocates

  Houston Area Mental Health Advocates

  September 20, 2001

• Rx for Failure?

  MHMRA restricts Medicaid services at mental health clinic pharmacies

  August 2, 2001

• Mental Lapse

  Increasing deficits cause MHMRA to close a new treatment clinic

  March 1, 2001

• Super Vision

  By keeping a constant eye on its mentally ill clients, an ACT team heads off all sorts of troubles

  February 22, 2001

• Hands On

  When the sickest of Harris County's mentally ill break down, an ACT team is there to pick up the pieces and put them back together again

  February 22, 2001

• Upstairs Down - and Out?

  A money-starved mental health treatment unit may die in its infancy

  February 1, 2001

• The Way Back

  Funding cuts kill work programs as well as treatment services

  November 9, 2000

• Future Shock

  Can the system keep up with the evolution of mental health?

  November 9, 2000

• Catch Us If You Can

  Steve Chesser went to MHMRA for help. Sent home from its emergency clinic without medicine or therapy, he shot his and killed himself. Diagnosis: A mental health care system in free fall.

  November 9, 2000

• Tackling the Taboo

  Despite suicides and inner strife, Asian-Americans resist psychotherapy

  September 14, 2000

• Methadone Meltdown

  Dr. Amos and Cecilia Ozumba ran Houston Maintenance Clinic for four years. Have they finally run it into the ground?

  April 27, 2000

• Real Life

  The Scrunchie Skirmishes. On the Cinco Ranch High School drill team, winning -- and weight -- is everything

  February 24, 2000

• Downing

  Texas Lottery. Let's buy our tickets and bet on the day that Robert Arthur Pearson finally kills himself in public while we all watch

  November 25, 1999

• Dangerous Deficits

  Mental health cuts may come back to haunt the public

  August 19, 1999

• Downing

  Quiet Rage: Insurers and the state have given up, but parents are battling to get help for their severely troubled boy

  July 22, 1999

• Trouble in Mind

  Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.

  July 8, 1999