Mental health

The conversation around defunding police has included debate on whether law enforcement should be responding to calls involving a person’s mental…

Posting content related to suicide is an indicator that young people might be thinking about suicide, according to a recent study. Researchers anonymously surveyed 15,000 middle and high school students in the Stark County area, which recently experienced a rapid increase in youth suicides between August 2017 and March 2018.

The isolation and stress brought on by COVID-19 have been particularly difficult for people fighting drug addiction. When Ohio shut down in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, nonprofits that offer services to people with substance use issues had to change the way they operate to keep the virus at bay. MetroHealth, which operates an opioid safety office, also had to limit some services said Kelly Cioletti. “With COVID 19 happening the way it did ... access to treatment, detox, all of that shut down,” Cioletti said.

Case Western Reserve University researchers are studying trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and they say they’re concerned that the outbreak might…

In the weeks and months following May 4, 1970, life for Kent State students changed completely. The university responded to the shootings by halting on-campus classes and creating a type of pre-Internet distance learning for students, and students and faculty had to change the way they learned and taught. The students were, of course, emotionally changed by the experience as well, and the approach to mental health care at the time was quite different than today.

Here are your morning headlines for Monday, March 16:Kent State employee testing for COVID-19, students ordered to leave;Cleveland State basketball coach…

People with food allergies have a new option for treatment in Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland Clinic opened its Food Allergy Center in Strongsville this…

Federal law mandates insurers treat mental health services like they would physical health care. But the sponsors of a new bill in the Ohio Legislature…

Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, Dec. 4:Cleveland-Cliffs buys AK Steel;Akron Children's identifies 3 health priorities;Former Cleveland RTA…

Suicide rates are increasing in Ohio. The Ohio Department of Health says they’re trying to understand why.  The Ohio Department of Health says five people…