Mental Health

Band of Skulls

Down the Hatch: The Rothman Report

A scathing, 86-page report called out doctors who "subverted scientific integrity" for money.

Happy World Mental Health Day! 5 Crazy Songs

Delirium is the youngest of the endless. She smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, old leather. Her realm is close, and can be visited; however, human minds were not made to comprehend her domain, and those few who have made the journey have been incapable of reporting back more than the tiniest ... More >>

Controversy Fizzing Over New Diet Pepsi "Skinny Can" Campaign

prnewswire.comIt's beautiful because it's thin. ​Diet soda in a thinner can. A visual reflection of the body you're working towards or looking to maintain by cutting out empty calories. Hey, it makes sense. So why is there so much controversy surrounding Diet Pepsi's new "Skinny Can"? Well, ... More >>

Top Five Teen-Idol Rehab Alumni

​Checking into rehab is no laughing matter. That said, we at Rocks Off often find inspiration in even the darkest of corners. So when it was announced, much to our surprise, that Dallas-born teen pop starlet Demi Lovato had checked into rehab an inpatient treatment center, we pondered celebri ... More >>

Phobia Haunted House

Just named one of the Top 25 Must-See Haunted Houses in the country for 2010

Philip Grantham: One Of Many Who'll Be Affected By Further Cuts In Texas' Mental-Health Budget

If the proposed funding cuts go through, people like Philip Grantham could suffer. ​For the second time in less than ten years, Texas legislators, faced with a massive budget shortage, are talking about major cuts in mental health funding. If it happens, Texas, which is 48th in the country for suc ... More >>

Angry Blue October Fan Appeals Our Ethics To Washington Post

Blue October fans, still carping​All these months later, and some Blue Meanies (as Blue October fans call themselves) won't let it go...Yesterday, in one of Washington Post feature writer Gene Weingarten's hosted chats, a reader wanted to know what the two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winner thought about ... More >>

Cowboy Junkies' Poetic Restraint at House Of Blues

Flickr photo by adambowie​Everybody knows that good news always sleeps til noon. -- "Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning" There was a palpable tingle of anticipation in the joint as we waited for the curtain to go up on the Cowboy Junkies' first gig in Houston in a coon's age Tuesday at House ... More >>

Teen Porn Troubles

Plus: Readers reaction to Wild on Washington.

Detox Craze: Stupid or Sane?

​We can't turn on the TV or the radio without hearing about the latest detox craze. Just the other day, we heard Rod Ryan talk about how great the Blessed Herbs one-week cleanse was on his radio show. Trust us, we really don't need to hear about his cleanse in detail that early in the morning. ... More >>

Houston's Craziest Headline?

Does a headline that draws attention to a story always have to be politically correct?

E. L. Doctorow

The author of Billy Bathgate takes on the inner lives of hoarders

Houston Firm Can Stop Your Smoking Habit -- Online!!

Teh Internets can solve almost any problem, it seems, from having to pay for music and news to bringing down Islamofascist dictatorships. Now smoking has apparently joined the list. A small Houston company that runs interactive pay-sites to help with compulsive hair-pulling and skin-picking disord ... More >>

The Houston Group Children At Risk Unfortunately Still Finds Its Name Relevant

Children at Risk's 10th report on Houston-area children is out, and it's as grim as ever."The 2008-2010 edition of Growing Up in Houston continues to underscore the many needs of our children," the respected organization says.Among the highlights:-47% of Harris County children live in or near povert ... More >>

Father Of Murdered UH Prof Blasts Insanity-Plea Deal

A new face of injustice in Harris County could soon be James Dewald, Sr., father of the University of Houston professor killed by his wife last year. Dewald repeatedly told reporters this morning that the case has ended in a "miscarriage of justice."Kristen Dewald, who confessed to the murder shortl ... More >>

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, a ... More >>

You Down With OCD? Yeah, You Know Me

Video games linked to obsessive, Tony Shalhoub-type behavior

Eva Longoria is SOOOO Fat!

Video games linked to obsessive, Tony Shalhoub-type behavior

Soldier Suicides

Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

The Jail's Mental-Health Issues To Get An Airing

Surviving our War on Terror calls for more than an ability to dodge bullets and IEDs

Mental Anguish for West Oaks Hospital

West Oaks Story

Mental Anguish at Texas West Oaks Hospital

Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

Paul Miles, Iraq and PTSD

Go to this private psychiatric facility, and you might be helped. Or you might be shut in a room all alone and end up like Amanda, with a broken arm. Or dead.

Back from Iraq with Plenty of Problems

Paul Miles returned from Iraq needing help with the death in his head. He got prison.

Cyberonics Sells Patent Rights for Pacemaker-like Device, HouStoned Headline Writer Inexplicably Not in Mood to Make "Heart" Pun

Paul Miles returned from Iraq needing help with the death in his head. He got prison.

Death at West Oaks Hospital

Two men went into a walled-in courtyard at a mental hospital. One came out alive.

When Mom Pops

Two men went into a walled-in courtyard at a mental hospital. One came out alive.

Paxil: Now with Even More Effects!

Two men went into a walled-in courtyard at a mental hospital. One came out alive.

Letters to the Editor

Two men went into a walled-in courtyard at a mental hospital. One came out alive.

Diary of a Mad Man

Exploring the rights and wrongs of independent life for the mentally ill

Cranked

Meth users are really proDuctive, sExy, hAppy anD slim

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

Exposed Nerve

Cyberonics has implanted its pacemaker in thousands of epileptics. It wants to expand to the depression market. Still needed: an accounting of those who died or were injured after receiving its implant.

The Reorient Express

Some churches are still trying to "cure" homosexuals. And some people are still lining up to trade in their sex life for eternal life.

Back in the Saddle

The Cowboy Junkies ride again

Letters

The Cowboy Junkies ride again

Letters

The Cowboy Junkies ride again

Caring for the Kids

Plus: Last Seen Wearing..., Punch Lines, Looking Down

Protective Wrapping

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

Saving Nicholas

He was hurt by his mother, ripped away from the foster parents who loved him and put in an institution where he was abused. That's when Alice and Ellery Riha really decided to fight.

Nature of the Beast

Plastic surgeon Billy Ringer has been sued ten times for malpractice. He's on probation for sexual misconduct. He sewed a needle into Colleen Guidy. But he's still in business -- cutting, vacuuming, rearranging and, it seems, injuring patients.

Letters

Mental Health Madness, Residental Revelations, English or Else?

Methadone Meltdown

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

Letters

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

Department of Self-Promotion

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

Holistic Touch

Some ex-patients credit the mind-body therapy of New Age healer JoAnne Mandel with saving their lives. Others say her compassion stopped at the bottom line.

Not the Same Old Junkies

A new label and energy return Canada's moaners to the spotlight

Ritalin on Trial

While some Houston parents fight what they charge is "a river of Ritalin" running through the schools, one father has gone to court to try to prove that, for his son, Ritalin use is Ritalin abuse.

Drunk, But Not Disorderly

Meg Ryan battles the curse of cuteness