Subject:

Mental Health

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Mental-Health Issues in Pierce County are No Joke

    This week, supplementing his current feature on the impact privatization has had on the mental-health system in Pierce County, Keegan Hamilton has been posting to Daily Weekly with additional details, source documents and insight gained during the extensive research process for the cover story.

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Comment of the Day: More Stand-Your-Ground Debate

    On Friday Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson posted about the eight stand-your-ground shooting incidents by homeowners in the Seattle area since January. The post has sparked a serious debate in our comments section, which continued even yesterday.

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Leon Panetta Weighs-In on PTSD Diagnosis Controversy at Madigan Army Medical Center

    The fallout from the bombshell dropped last fall at Madigan Army Medical Center continues. Now, months after the hospital's forensic psychology team urged the facility's doctors to be cautious in diagnosing PTSD because the generous retirement benefits for shell-shocked soldiers cost taxpayers money ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    VA Staffers Say They Can't Meet Demand for Soldiers' Mental Health Care

    ​Last week, the Obama administration reiterated that 33,000 troops will be coming home from Afghanistan by the end of next year. That's on top of thousands steaming back from Iraq. Is the VA prepared for the certain influx of trauma and PTSD cases? A survey released by Senator Patty Murray is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Jared Hagemann's Tale Illustrates Big Problem Among Vets: Domestic Violence

    ​This week's feature story reveals the saga that led up to the death of Jared Hagemann. The ranger was plagued not only by wartime demons but by a turbulent home life--sheding lights on a little-recognized problem among veterans: domestic violence.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Steven Well, Insane Or Just Hates Landlords? A Court to Decide

    ​There are a few facts that no one is arguing when it comes to Steven Well: one, that he brutally stabbed to death his 64-year-old landlord, Judith Garcia; two, that he viciously assaulted another landlady back in 1980; and three, that he's been in and out of mental institutions for much of hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Myths About Drugs and Booze In the Creative Process Have Been Perpetuated By People Who Should Know Better

    John Roderick is the singer and songwriter responsible for Seattle's The Long Winters. He is a regular columnist for Reverb and currently serving a tour as the blog's guest editor.​Let's be honest: Drinking alcohol and taking drugs is fun. Unfortunately, in America there's a culturally ingrain ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Slipping Out of Darkness

    Three years after the U.S. Justice Department demanded changes at the King County jail, some dangerous conditions remain.

  • News

    September 1, 2010

    Boeing's Next Delays

    Uncovering more problems for the Dreamliner.

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Those Mysterious Army Deaths: An Update

    Russell​A Seattle Weekly cover story last December about the Camp Liberty, Iraq, massacre of U.S. soldiers by John Russell, a deranged Fort Lewis sergeant, also focused on other puzzling non-combat deaths, including soldiers dying in their sleep. Now Georgia author Cilla McCain and San Diego n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    State Suspends Thurston County Doctor After She Goes Off the Rails in Alcohol-Soaked Week

    Dr. Sarah Reade once crashed into a tree​Whatever is going on with Dr. Sarah Reade, she appears to be unable to care for herself, never mind anybody else. The Thurston County doctor and surgeon, whose suspension was announced yesterday by the state Department of Health, went off the rails in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    Hibernating in Public: Citizen Coffee

    ​Citizen Coffee sits in a dead end corner of Queen Anne, hemmed in by the Mercer mess to the south and Aurora Avenue to the east. The tiny cafe has a completely exposed kitchen, serving primarily sandwiches and crepes, in a skinny space with a tiny window counter, downstairs. Instead of compl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Live Review: Tina Dico Rambles and Croons Her Way through Heartache

    ​Who: Tina Dico When: Wednesday, October 7 , 2009 Where: The Triple Door Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dico played an intimate set last night that focused on, as she put it, "a guy I used to... know." That guy being one who never called when he was supposed to, lost his job, and had serious ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Queen Anne Ave's The Mecca Sticks an Alcohol-Reeking Tongue Out at Nickels

    ​The Mecca on Lower Queen Anne, proud home of "alcoholics serving alcoholics," isn't letting the nightlife regulatory wars of the late aughts die quietly. The latest sign on its marquee makes sure its drunken patrons remember that any pissing, littering, and caterwauling they may engage in out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Last Night: Cowboy Junkies & Son Volt at the Zoo

     The neat thing about seeing shows at the Woodland Park Zoo -- other than the world's largest fleet of mischievous two-and-a-half-year-olds and husky, fly-fishing lesbian security guards -- is that the artists pick a specific animal to which they'd like a portion of the concert's proceeds to go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    King County Loves Its Painkillers

    Spend enough of time talking to hardcore drug addicts (and, believe me, I have) and you'll inevitably get drawn into a debate over a particular locality's narcotic of choice, debates that in the absence of hard data often devolve into arguments over the quality of what could be copped and how popula ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    The Paul Williams I Knew

    When a mentally ill person allegedly commits a heinous crime against another human being, early press accounts understandably paint a bleak portrait of the accused as a crazy monster on a road to nowhere. Early accounts of the condition of 33-year-old Paul Williams, who stands accused of plotting an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Grave Markers for Western's Dead

    Writing about Western State Hospital last week, we mentioned that "Untold mistakes and mysteries are buried there," referring to the mental institution's overgrown graveyard. The mysteries - how, exactly, some patients died in the past - will remain interred, but at least some of the names are being ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    De-Nesting Cuckoo

    Nine years ago, then-Gov. Gary Locke spoke bravely of tearing down Lakewood's gloomy Western State Hospital, the state's biggest mental institution other than the state capitol building, and replacing it with a modern treatment facility. Instead, he cut its budget. Now 136 years old, it has been rep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Katy Perry Fans Attack!

    Fuck. I should've known this was coming. I went on TBTL with Luke Burbank last night where we chatted a bit about the weekend in music, which included Katy Perry's Showbox performance. I may have said it sucked ass. Apparently, my choice words for Perry's mediocre performance are a result ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    Ladies, Here's a Reason to Bring a Copy of Maxim Along with You to Caffe Ladro

    Fuck. I should've known this was coming. I went on TBTL with Luke Burbank last night where we chatted a bit about the weekend in music, which included Katy Perry's Showbox performance. I may have said it sucked ass. Apparently, my choice words for Perry's mediocre performance are a result ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2008

    Marilynne Robinson

    Fuck. I should've known this was coming. I went on TBTL with Luke Burbank last night where we chatted a bit about the weekend in music, which included Katy Perry's Showbox performance. I may have said it sucked ass. Apparently, my choice words for Perry's mediocre performance are a result ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2008

    Go to War, Get Traumatized, Get the Boot

    Like many Iraq combat vets, Mark Siegel had trouble coping back home. So the Army kicked him out.

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    David & Nic Sheff

    Father/son revelations of the cost of drug abuse

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2008

    The Daily Wire: The Lectures Grim

    Father/son revelations of the cost of drug abuse

  • Diversions

    January 30, 2008

    Drinking and Chihuahuas

    Father/son revelations of the cost of drug abuse

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Haven't Cons and Their Kids Been Separated Long Enough?

    A new state law is keeping families apart, even after a convict is released.

  • Calendar

    December 19, 2007

    A(n improvised) Christmas Carol

    Stick to a script? Bah! Humbug!

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    The Furiousseason of Giving

    Stick to a script? Bah! Humbug!

  • Calendar

    November 28, 2007

    Third Annual Winter Beer Festival

    Drink local

  • News

    October 24, 2007

    Chow Gets a Taste of Judgment for “Flavor” Comments

    Good luck, “dog.”

  • Calendar

    October 3, 2007

    Tech N9ne

    Tuesday, October 8

  • Music

    August 29, 2007

    Roky Erickson: Modern Medicine Resurrects a Psychedelic Pioneer’s Career

    His tragic personal life has overshadowed one very important fact: He made amazing music.

  • Diversions

    February 7, 2007

    Dategirl

    The slow-going O.

  • News

    February 7, 2007

    Down to the Metal

    A mentally ill man who was fleeced by local car dealers also seems to have been let down by public agencies.

  • Film

    December 6, 2006

    Candy

    Opens at Varsity, Fri., Dec. 8. Rated R. 108 minutes.

  • News

    July 19, 2006

    Schwinn City

    "[T]he reason I drive a Jaguar today is that it is the closest I’ve come to re-creating the feeling of having my very own Schwinn."

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    Here Goes the Neighborhood

    A homelessness solution prompts an area of town that should know better to roll up the welcome mat.

  • News

    September 21, 2005

    Dead-End Jail

    Deaths by suicide or other causes have increased in recent years at the King County Jail, but finding out why—or by how much—isn't easy.

  • News

    August 24, 2005

    Former Deputy Sues

    Angela Holland files a lawsuit over her firing for mental illness.

  • Diversions

    June 1, 2005

    Cruise-ology

    Angela Holland files a lawsuit over her firing for mental illness.

  • News

    March 5, 2003

    The ACT React

    'Far too many boards in this town don't have a clue about fiduciary responsibility nor about their job descriptions as trustees.'

  • News

    July 10, 2002

    Opel's Hopeful

    Mom hopes children will help her escape the death penalty.

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    Mom hopes children will help her escape the death penalty.

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    Crazy cuts

    Critics assail the governor's plan for the mentally ill.

  • News

    November 15, 2000

    Smack down

    Seattle's heroin treatment program may soon get the boot from downtown.

  • Food

    September 1, 1999

    The Four Seasons Olympic Hotel

    Seattle's heroin treatment program may soon get the boot from downtown.

  • Arts

    March 3, 1999

    Books Quarterly: God Damn the Pusher Man

    And God bless the patron saint of America's only sane drug policy: Dick Nixon.

  • News

    January 20, 1999

    Letters

    'Weekly' whiners

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