Category: mental illness

Tyler Texas Establishes ‘Precedent Setting’ Program in Approach to the Homeless

Homeless issues in Tyler, Texas, are not expected to be eradicated, said the city’s mayor and a police sergeant on Feb. 24, to The Epoch Times. But there is the expectation that Tyler’s homeless problem can be “mitigated, managed, and controlled,” given the right focus and proper distribution of available resources. Civic leaders and police…


Soledad Ursua: Drug Addiction, Crime, and Mental Illness—The Tragedy Unfolding on America’s Streets

“Experts keep saying … it’s a housing crisis. But we see it every day with our own eyes. When you see somebody who is passed out in their vomit or someone who is covered in feces and urine—and there are needles and there’s filth on the streets—that’s not poverty. That’s mental illness. And that’s drug…


California Shouldn’t Use Jails to Solve Homeless and Mental Illness Problems | Sheriff Don Barnes

Stating that California’s homeless need a hand up, not a handout, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes explains how his Behavioral Health Bureau is a lifesaving solution for people living on the streets. California Insider is an Epoch Times show available on YouTube, Rumble, Youmaker, and The Epoch Times website. It also airs on cable on…


Weaponizing Mental Health

Commentary Leaders and teachers are encouraging us to feel offended over a long list of grievances. We humans are easily offended, so fanning grievances is an effective way for a leader to recruit followers. Your stock of resentments is your ticket into the “army of discontent,” as Karl Marx called it. Leaders have weaponized public…


Why Government Money Hasn’t Solved California’s Homelessness? | Jim Palmer

In Orange County California alone, there will be an estimated 10,000 people sleeping on the street tonight. My returning guest today is Jim Palmer, President of Orange County Rescue Mission, Today he discusses why California should pay attention to substance abuse and mental illness to help the state’s homeless population. California Insider is an Epoch…


Why California Needs to Revolutionize Its Mental Health System | Richard Afable

California’s National Alliance on Mental Health reported one in five adults experience a mental illness each year. My guest today is Richard Afable. He is a medical doctor and president of Be Well OC. Today he discusses the need for effective prevention and intervention in treating mental illnesses and why a handful of visionaries in…


The Definition of Insanity Regarding Mass Murder

Commentary Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results, according to the Hazelden Foundation (not according to Einstein, for the record). The latest horrifying examples: Atlanta, Ga.; Boulder, Colo.; Orange, Calif.; Rock Hill, S.C.; Indianapolis, Ind. Take just Atlanta, for instance.  On March 16, Robert Aaron Long shot and killed eight people in…


US Capitol Attacker May Have Suffered From Drugs or Mental Illness: Family

The man who allegedly rammed a car into a barrier at the U.S. Capitol on April 2 may have been suffering from drugs or mental illness, his family says. Noah Green, 25, was violently ill the night before he allegedly carried out the attack, brother Brendan Green told the Washington Post. Brendan Green, who had…


Canadians Who’ve Recovered from Depression Urge MPs to Vote Against Bill C-7

Canadians who had recovered from depression are urging MPs to vote against amendments to a bill that would expand access to medically assisted deaths for people suffering from mental illnesses. In a press conference co-hosted by Conservative MPs on Monday, witnesses expressed concerns about the Liberal government’s latest amendments to Bill C-7, which would allow people who…