The Metro: The body keeps the receipt
Have you ever sat in your car in a grocery store parking lot, looked at the receipt, and felt something...
Mental health on The Metro
May is Mental Health Mont and The Metro is taking a closer look throughout the month of May. Here, you’ll find stories, conversations and resources as they’re published.
The Metro: The body keeps the receipt
Have you ever sat in your car in a grocery store parking lot, looked at the receipt, and felt something...
The Metro: Why health is the common theme threading Detroit’s city departments
Five years ago drug overdoses were killing more than 3,000 people a year in Michigan. It was the worst the...
The Metro: Healing the mental wounds of domestic violence
When someone finally walks out of an abusive home, we tend to think of it as the end of the...
The Metro: Are popular therapy terms helping or hurting how we understand mental illness?
For a long time the main focus of health was physical. It’s generally accepted that everyone should visit a doctor...
The Metro: He served 23 years. Now he’s helping the next generation earn a degree behind bars
Inside a Michigan prison less than an hour from Detroit, 25 incarcerated men are doing something many people behind bars...
The Metro: Why those closest to crimes are some of the biggest advocates for rehabilitation
A common assumption shapes American crime policy: that the people most exposed to crime — victims, and the officers who...
The Metro: How ‘social prescribing’ could solve America’s loneliness epidemic
Some public health researchers are turning to a new kind of prescription to address the problem. It’s called “social prescribing.”...
The Metro: A clinician’s perspective on why therapy is so inaccessible
For the first time in decades, more people are seeking talk therapy over medication. The good news is there’s less...
The Metro: Social workers are a part of police departments. When should they be called to act?
When someone is in distress, who should respond to the call for help? Police officers or social workers? After the...