psychologist, Karen Maroda, Milwaukee, private practice
Walmart’s recent roll-out of an in-store mental health clinic in Texas has provoked curiosity and skepticism. Mental health advocates hope for a success that could mean a mental health clinic in every Walmart across the…
Opinion writer Jennifer Weiner published a column in today’s (Sunday, January 10, 2016) New York Times about our national obsession with beauty and transformation. She references Oprah Winfrey’s new commercials for Weight Watchers and is…
We are a nation in pain. And as a result, we are a nation with an increasing drug addiction and overdose problem. Formerly the province of mostly black Americans in poor neighborhoods, heroin addiction and…
The latest desperate effort at combating obesity comes in the form of the American Medical Association officially declaring it a disease last week. No one has actually declared war on obesity yet, but I trust…
March 1, 2013 On February 12, President Obama announced a broad, and very expensive (300 billion dollars), initiative aimed at mapping the human brain. He compared its importance, and benefits, to the human genome project,…
February 1, 2013 The New York Times reported last week that “painkillers now take the lives of more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined...Prescription drugs account for about three-quarters of all drug overdose deaths in…