By Alex Pietrowski The first two pharmaceutical antidepressants were clinically introduced in the 1950s, and the conditions they were supposed to treat would have at that time been found in about 50 to 100 persons per million. Today, some 13% of Americans now take antidepressants…
By Stewart Dunlop, Natural Blaze Science is just starting to learn about the microbiome, but with the little we already know, we can tell it is one of the most fascinating systems in our bodies. This intelligent bacterial ecosystem that lives in our gut contains…
By Matt Agorist Less than six years ago, Colorado citizens—tired of the war on drugs and wise to the near-limitless benefits of cannabis—made US history by voting to legalize recreational marijuana. Now, this state could once again place themselves on the right side of history as they…
By Joe Battaglia While many recent studies have suggested an association between obesity and common mental disorders, the exact nature of any relationship remains uncertain. We only know that there is indeed a relationship. The real question becomes whether or not their relationship is reciprocal….
By Anna Hunt Some are calling energy psychology “the most impressive intervention,” with the ability to defuse emotions built up after years of trauma. Also called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or just tapping, this practice is quickly making its way into the mainstream. EFT is…
By Alex Pietrowski The drugging of the American public is one of those strange, well-known, but under-discussed issues that’s never quite fully represented in the conversation about where our culture is and where it’s heading. As of 2016, one in six American adults were taking…
By Carey Wedler For years, the opioid addiction and overdose crisis has been headline news across the United States, and rightly so. In 2012, 241,000 privately insured patients had an “opioid dependency diagnosis.” By 2016, that number had ballooned to 1.4 million, not including individuals on…
SPECIAL REPORT By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze More Authority For Mental Health Agencies Not A Solution To Mass Shootings – Dangerous Course For Civil Liberties After another tragic mass shooting, this time in a Florida high school, Americans are once again caught in a whirlwind of emotion,…
By Anna Hunt Mild depression. Situational depression. Anxiety. These don’t seem like the types of psychological problems that would lead to aggression, addiction and suicide. Yet, that is exactly what’s happening more frequently than ever before. Thriving Mental Health Market When Prozac came out in…
It has never been easy to be an adolescent, but by the look of things, twenty-first century teenagers may be having a harder time than ever. One contributing factor—the one that public health agencies and the media seem most willing to discuss—is a ballooning epidemic of mental health problems…
By Natural Blaze Society is socially engineered to outsource their self-worth and “trust the experts” – to trust the big-time successes. But there is more than meets the eye – what are they not telling you? You could almost groan at any book on…
By Melinda Cafferty Quality of sleep is certainly important, but never underestimate the “power of hours” when it comes to restorative rest. Modern adults are simply not getting enough sleep and they are feeling the effects of it every day. Researchers warned about this in…
By Sigmund Fraud “Who are the men who without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities, about the tariff, about the price of rubber, about the…
By April McCarthy Eating out has been shown to be generally associated with poor food choices, bad health and fewer family meals. A new Canadian study shows that children who routinely eat their meals together with their family are more likely to experience long-term physical…
By Vic Bishop “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.” ~Chamath Palihapitiya In a recent talk with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, former vice-president of user growth for Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya, made some rather…
By Mac Slavo The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a new pill with a digital sensor in it. It will “ensure” that patients who suffer from mental health issues take their medicine when they are told. But privacy concerns have not gone unnoticed….
By Katherine Hine “I had refused to take bribes and had testified against my fellow officers. Police make up a peculiar subculture in society. More often than not they have their own moral code of behavior, an ‘us against them’ attitude, enforced by a Blue…
By Katherine Hine “You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain’t gonna need no third set, ’cause you gonna get your mind right.” — Captain, Road Prison 36, from the film Cool…
By Katherine Hine “Psychiatry is the only medical specialty that must arrange for police protection against demonstrations by ex-patients when they hold national conferences.” — Al Siebert, PhD [Schizophrenia Breakthrough (Practical PsychologyPress 2003, p. 163] INDEPENDENT FEDERAL JUDGES? THE JUDICIAL-PSYCHIATRIC COMPLEX – HOW DID WE…
By Katherine Hine “Only a few years ago, a cop who was in the same 81st Precinct I started in, Adrian Schoolcraft, was actually taken to a psych ward and handcuffed to a gurney for six days after he tried to complain about corruption –…
