The rate of “deaths of despair” is slowly declining, a new report said, but they are still more prevalent in Appalachia than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nakeya Fields is a licensed clinical social worker and chair of the Pasadena-based Black Mental Health Task Force. (Jason Armond / ...

Nearly two years ago, I found myself standing in a humid, grimy motel room in Pennsylvania, talking to opioid addicts about what drove them to their addictions. At the time I was struck by the many ...

Integrity vs. despair is the eighth and final stage of Erik Erikson’s stage theory of psychosocial development. This stage begins at approximately age 65 and ends at death. Psychologists, counselors, ...