Wearing the Uniform, but Living in the Dark
No one said this job was going to be easy. But if you asked me five years into my career,…
No one said this job was going to be easy. But if you asked me five years into my career,…
Think that rural communities don’t face mental health challenges? Nothing could be further from the truth. Maybe it’s because we are small,…
It was about 8:45 p.m. on a slow weeknight in early 2011. We were ready to close the pharmacy down…
The idea that military-connected individuals and civilians cannot understand one another, often referred to as the civilian-military divide, is one…
Addiction is a brain disorder. That finding is still relatively new within the scientific community, having only really emerged during…
I am a veteran. When I returned home to Amarillo, Texas after being deployed to Afghanistan with the Army’s 82nd…
November 11 is Veterans Day, so we’re focusing on veteran and military mental health for the entire month of November.…
Approximately one in 10 police calls involves a person with mental illness, making police the nation’s de facto first responders…
Maj. Jim Cleek, commander of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) Training Bureau, found out his son was living with…
At any coffee house in the country, you can get a solid cup of coffee, do some work, catch up…
If you haven’t read Part I of Sgt. Eric Weaver’s inspirational story, click here. In 2002, a fellow officer and…
“If I don’t tell you something, I’m going to kill myself.” I said these words to my then-wife in the…