As we close out 2023, we look ahead to a new year with a landscape partially defined by fear and mistrust. Many Americans say their confidence is shaken. They feel like every institution from the government, to the banking system, to corporations, to religion, to the news media are corrupt. What to do when so many of us can’t trust the institutions that hold our society together?
America stopped institutionalizing people with mental illness decades ago. But now, many are caught up in a system not meant for them. On this episode of Us & Them, we’ll hear what it’s like to live with mental illness behind bars in the Mountain State.
In the beauty of this valley and the iconic rivers that run through it and the mountains that surround it, we can easily ignore or forget the ugliness of life
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CHARLESTON — Two women in recovery from substance abuse described sleeping in standing water and having a seizure with no medical intervention during a legislative interim committee meeting Monday.