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The attacks by mental health experts on Donald Trump’s psychological health have violated the “Goldwater Rule,” the informal name given to section 7.3 of the American Psychiatric Association’s “Principles of Medical Ethics,” which says it's unethical to diagnose someone if you haven't examined him.

Compared to many illnesses, eating disorders are extremely underfunded which reflects not only a misunderstanding about just how many people are impacted but also just how dangerous these illnesses can be.

As the end of 2017 nears and more people than ever will die of a heroin or opioid overdose in Harford, the fight against the epidemic continues.

Scientists are examining use of an existing drug to treat people who suffer from alcoholism and PTSD, acknowledging that mental health and addiction are commonly linked.

We don't know much about Emily Butler except that she died while in solitary confinement at a Md. prison — and that her death was probably preventable

Behavioral health issues are starting to get more attention in Harford County and, hopefully, everywhere else, but there's no answer to the question of how communities will pay for services badly needed by their citizens.

Interim Superintendent Michael Martirano unveiled the latest efforts to combat bullying in schools.

More than four in 10 children in Maryland experience a traumatic event.

A Baltimore Sun report detailing how often patients beat up workers at a state psychiatric hospital has prompted hearings in Annapolis.

Maryland-owned Spring Grove Hospital Center shows spike in assaults on staff as hiring languishes.

Zirpoli: Better to fund football safety study than turf fields

A Baltimore psychologist is on what he views as a critical mission to warn voters about President Donald Trump's mental health. Many of his colleagues are uncomfortable with the effort.

Baltimore County is learning that it’s getting more expensive to provide healthcare to jail inmates.

Meaghan Creed has already cured cocaine addiction in mice with a combination of deep brain stimulation and medication, and now she’s trying to see if she can do the same for opioid addiction.

When web developer Madalyn Parker emailed her team to say she was taking time off to care for her mental health and posted her boss’s positive response on Twitter, the news went viral.

While there are medications that will target depression, many scientists still aren’t sure why they’re effective and why they don’t work for everyone.

Moms who lived in neighborhoods of civil unrest after death of Freddie Gray suffered from depression

Are drug companies grooming the next generation of customers in the womb?

Day and overnight passes have been a risky treatment tactic for psychiatric hospitals in the past. Some patients given these passes subsequently ended up either seriously hurting or killing themselves or others, or committing violent assaults and other crimes.

Researchers and scientists still are trying to figure just how much of an emotional and mental toll social media is having on young people. The evidence is mixed.

Spokesman John White said the Howard County Public School System released a letter to parents and the community a couple of weeks ago in response to reports of students discussing the show with their peers and teachers.

Eviction, and the threat of eviction, weigh heavily on the lives of many of Baltimore's poorest tenants. They move from one ramshackle rental to the next, migrants in their own city, squeezed by rents that consume most of their meager incomes, intolerable housing conditions, a court system that advocates say is insufficiently responsive to their complaints, and a rate of eviction actions that is among the highest in the nation.

Howard County faces a chronic shortage of affordable housing for people with psychiatric conditions, mental health advocates say.

Maryland lawmakers have struck on a new idea to fight the deadly heroin epidemic that has swept across the state: Treat addicts with medical marijuana.

Nearly four decades after research into psychedelics was suppressed by the government, a new wave of scientists is restoring legitimacy to a misunder

Feelings of economic desperation among middle-aged white Americans are contributing to a sharp rise in mortality rates, two

As psychotherapists with over 30 years experience, we still look to our patients to teach us about their multiple Baltimores. But Baltimore has a certain psychology, a sublime sensibility at once obvious and ineffable, not unlike the unconscious itself: tender and tough, wounded and surviving, swaggering and fearful, Northern and Southern, black and white.

Kathy Walsh, director of marketing for Fallston Group, received the ATHENA Leadership Award and Paige Boyle, director of marketing and customer relations fo

The research is clear: More guns and easier access to them won't make us safer.

Could model students one day drop out of school, develop a drug or alcohol addiction or become violent as some students clearly do? Data collected over three decades suggests they won't, even as adults.

States that legalized same sex marriage prior to a Supreme Court decision that made it federal law saw a sharp decline in adolescent suicide attempts, according to an analysis by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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Before Michael ever saw the inside of juvenile lockup, caseworkers recommended he be sent home. The 13-year-old came from a stable, two-parent home in Columbia. He watched over his three younger siblings, did chores around the house, and enjoyed playing in his youth football league.

Before Michael ever saw the inside of juvenile lockup, caseworkers recommended he be sent home. The 13-year-old came from a stable, two-parent home in Columbia. He watched over his three younger siblings, did chores around the house, and enjoyed playing in his youth football league.

In Carroll County, many people are arrested who have an active, untreated addiction to heroin or other opioids.

Two state agencies have put a moratorium on sending youth in their custody to Good Shepherd Services, a Baltimore County residential treatment center cited by regulators for not providing proper supervision — after one patient reported being sexually assaulted and others showed signs of overdose after taking medicine stolen from a medical cart.

Two state agencies have placed a moratorium on sending youth in their custody to Good Shepherd Services, a Baltimore County residential treatment center cited

Workers in state hospitals and their union say a Thanksgiving riot at Springfield Hospital Center is only the most recent illustration of the dangers state employees face in Maryland health facilities.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and NYU School of Medicine have found in separate studies that the psychedelic drug psilocybin significantly reduced anxiety, depression and other emotional distress in cancer patients after just one dose.

Footage shows officer shoot man weilding knives

The parents of a woman who committed suicide at the Baltimore County Detention Center in 2013 are suing the county and others, alleging jail employees failed to provide mental health treatment.

Just 1 percent of the 16,000 doctors who treat patients in Maryland have signed up to for the state's medical marijuana program, and two of the largest hospital systems in the state have banned their physicians from participating.

Want to lower veteran suicides? Stop overmedicating them. Antidepressants, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, hypnotics and stimulants have all been linked to suicidality and/or completed suicides.

Evidence obtained by The Baltimore Sun — including the contents of Korryn Gaines' mobile phones, hours of audio and video never before seen by the public, hundreds of photos and documents, and statements from the officers involved — provides a rare look at the build-up to a deadly police encounter, at a time when such incidents are under intense national scrutiny.

The scheduled playtime wouldn't have been part of the equation several years ago for Colton or the rest of the critically ill children at Hopkins' PICU. These days, it's considered an integral part of the children's' recovery.

At least two people have been saved from committing suicide at the Town of Bel Air's Hickory Avenue parking garage because of a sensor installed in the six-story facility where three people have jumped to their deaths in the past two years. Bel Air town officials are looking into additional measures to prevent suicides from the tallest structure in the Harford County seat, such as fencing around the top deck.

A variety of mental health experts discuss the status of mental health in Howard County and how its transformed and addressed in society. Howard County Health department, HCPSS and students also discuss their experiences with mental illness.

Emergency rooms are struggling to save gunshot victims arriving in worse shape than ever before, with more bullet wounds, and increasingly shot in the head.

Thomas Lynch, 94, a retired psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, died of Parkinson's disease complications Tuesday at his Charlesbrook home.

On a 10-acre Harford County farm, horses are helping heal mental illness and emotional trauma.