Helping kids with epilepsy
Three years ago, 16-year-old Chelsea Hutchison died after experiencing a seizure in her sleep. The official cause of death: Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy, or SUDEP, which accounts for roughly 18 percent of deaths of people with epilepsy. No one knows exactly...
Denver Health bucks national healthcare trends
Psychiatric hospitals for adults are closing. Psychiatric hospitals for kids? They’re even more difficult to find these days. They don’t make enough money. Getting insurance to cover the costs of psychiatric treatment is, well, let’s just leave it at...
A trip to the garden center
From the files of “Out of the Mouths of Babes” — and as recounted on my Facebook Wall to the delight of dozens of friends, who offered enthusiastic thumbs up: Christine Tatum is recovering from the trauma of visiting a garden center with her...
Lazy journalism in the NYT compounds ignorance
I love journalism. I love many journalists. I have a long track record of going to the mat to improve and protect journalism. Lazy journalism? That’s a different story entirely. Please, allow me to dissect (or is that “rip to shreds?”) a New York...Read the book
Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. This book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction.