Sexual Assault Awareness Month: The Clothesline Project
April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month and throughout the country, many events are taking place to raise advocacy for this traumatic phenomenon. Since 1990, the Clothesline Project has provided an interactive way to raise awareness of sexual assault and a canvas for sexual assault survivors and allies to express their voice. In the summer of 1990, the Men’s Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC released a statistic stating that 51,000 women were killed mostly by men wh
A Story of a Naturopathic Doctor Refusing a Vaccination For Her Children
Dave Gorski, a surgical oncologist and professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, recalls a time when a board certified naturopathic doctor refused to bring her three children to the hospital for treatment for pertussis after refusing to get her children vaccinated for this infection. In her own words, the mother recounts the suffering her children had to go through: “My 3 year old son, Lucien, began coughing. Yes…it happened to be the same exact cough that Madil
Averting Opioid Addiction in Treating Chronic Pain
Appropriate and efficient medical care is difficult to provide in populations suffering an epidemic of opioid addiction. The escalation of such an epidemic is especially difficult to stall in certain regions of the United States where the relations between doctors and patients have been fortified due to long-term acquaintanceship; it is difficult for a doctor who has known a patient for an extended period of time – perhaps since childhood – to deny the requests of opioid pres
Islamophobia Affects Mental Health
Too often people associate mental health problems as personal issues rather than being reflective on social or political injustices. This mindset is one of the main reasons why mental health is not taken as seriously as it should be. Many forms of discrimination, such as sexism and racism, have been naturally integrated into today’s society and create adverse affects on mental health. Islamophobia is a type of discrimination that is on the rise and not only does it dehumanize
