Mental Health

Gambling: New Combat Vets Plagued by Troubling Addiction

Erica Loberg's L.A. County Mental Ward Tell-All

Sara Benincasa, Comedian and Sex Show Host, on Her New Book About Life With Agoraphobia

OK, let's just get this out of the way: "Benincasa" is a pretty funny name for someone who's agoraphobic. Sara Benincasa, who has gobs of credits as a comic, sex-chat show host and TV performer, signs her book on her bout with the anxiety disorder, Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom, tonigh ... More >>

An Inside Look at Agoraphobia

OK, let's just get this out of the way: "Benincasa" is a pretty funny name for someone who's agoraphobic. Sara Benincasa, who has gobs of credits as a comic, sex-chat show host and TV performer, signs her book on her bout with the anxiety disorder, Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom, tonigh ... More >>

Days of Wine and RosesWine

OK, let's just get this out of the way: "Benincasa" is a pretty funny name for someone who's agoraphobic. Sara Benincasa, who has gobs of credits as a comic, sex-chat show host and TV performer, signs her book on her bout with the anxiety disorder, Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom, tonigh ... More >>

Culinary Bachelors Dating Show: Apply Now!

​Single and looking for love in all the wrong kitchens? Pilgrim Studios (producers of Dirty Jobs, American Chopper and My Fair Wedding) is seeking a chef, restaurateur, gourmand, food writer or serious culinary enthusiast who's also an attention whore and wants to star his own dating show on " ... More >>

Study Finds Coffee May Decrease Risk of Depression in Women

LA Weekly Flickr pool/REcappucino​ Time to throw out the Prozac and buy some more Ethiopian Yrgecheffe instead. According to a report in yesterday's Archives of Internal Medicine, increased consumption of caffeinated coffee appears to decrease the risk of depression in women. Which is kind of ... More >>

Porn Addiction: The Global Industry Based in Los Angeles is a Growing Problem For ... Women?

Merrick Monroe.Women account for one out of three porn site visitors.​When you think about the audience for the multi-billion-dollar, LA.-based porn industry, you usually think men. That would be a good instinct, but not entirely correct. In fact there's some evidence that women are a big sli ... More >>

Sex Addiction: The New Obsession in Los Angeles

Is Charlie Sheen a sex addict?​Botox? Hair replacement? Christian Louboutin? No. The latest obsession in the City of Angels, it seems, is self-reflection about one's sexual urges. Yeah, sex addiction and treatment of such has become big business, thanks to publicity given to Tiger Woods and m ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Informally Licensed Sex Therapists Capitalizing On Sex-Addiction Craze

Sawf NewsPorn star Joslyn James was a tall whiskey-Cola to "sex addict" Tiger Woods​In a puzzling new contradiction to stale married life as we know it, therapists have found that many humans enjoy sex. Lots of it. New centers and counselors for sex-addiction therapy are popping up this yea ... More >>

We Are All Hoarders

Worst movie year ever? Or is Hollywood just feeding our addiction to garbage?

Broader Than Broadway

Worst movie year ever? Or is Hollywood just feeding our addiction to garbage?

Elyn Saks: A Matter of Degrees

Worst movie year ever? Or is Hollywood just feeding our addiction to garbage?

Bullets Not Bongs For U.S. Vets Denied Medical Marijuana

​Men and women who dodge (and sometimes take) bullets for their country as members of the U.S. armed forces cannot be prescribed medical marijuana by Veterans Affairs doctors, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. The V.A. states that the no-medical-marijuana policy, which applies to states ... More >>

"BENINCASA" IS A FUNNY NAME FOR AN AGORAPHOBIC

​Men and women who dodge (and sometimes take) bullets for their country as members of the U.S. armed forces cannot be prescribed medical marijuana by Veterans Affairs doctors, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. The V.A. states that the no-medical-marijuana policy, which applies to states ... More >>

Addiction: Buying the Cure at Passages Malibu

At upscale "rehab," all you need is faith. And $67,000 a month

Full Metal Lotus

Returning California soldiers tap Buddhist meditation to overcome war’s psychological damage

Susanna Moore: Women Behind Bars

Prison life in The Big Girls

The Art of Spooning

New jewelry measures healing

Drug Race

The dulling of the American mind

Dr. Norman Tabachnick, Lifesaver

The dulling of the American mind

The Rehab Economy

If you want to detox in style, it might help to get arrested first

Under My Tongue

The new face of the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine — safer, easier and FDA-approved

Freedom of Thought

Supreme Court weighs in on the hazards of medicating defendants

High on Justice

Lessons from drug court

Art Therapy

And its progression from the Holocaust camps to Loyola Marymount and beyond

The Forgotten Woman

Revelations from a plus-size life

Fat, the Bastard

The war over oil may be taking place in your head

A Trip to Purgatory

Exhuming Camarillo State Hospital's Troubled Past

Hooked on Sonics

Exhuming Camarillo State Hospital's Troubled Past

Listening to Sadness

Andrew Solomon on the history, science and poetry of despair

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Sometimes a panacea can be a mixed bag. The launch of Prop. 36

Footnotes

Sometimes a panacea can be a mixed bag. The launch of Prop. 36

The Insane System

Judge considers whether convicted killer is mentally fit to halt his appeals

Self-Realization

Bob Flanagan, Chris Kraus, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy

The First Step Back

Yes, needle exchanges can save lives. But they can do even more

Letters

Yes, needle exchanges can save lives. But they can do even more

When the Bough Breaks

Elizabeth Lynn Faber was ignored by California's mental-health system -- until she killed her baby

Drug Trials

County may resume experiments on mentally ill

The Martinet Mandate

Chief Parks tosses his weight around

Straight Time

The Battle for Drug Treatment in California Prisons

Sick and Mired

For mentally ill, any jail is hard time

Shrink Raps

...I went to see the Japanese film Wife To Be Sacrificed, and I was utterly appalled...

Quiet Tragedies

A roundtable discussion of mental illness

Heathen

Chocolate-flavored sex-drugs and more!

Fear and Self-Loathing in Adolescents

Chocolate-flavored sex-drugs and more!

Killing Joke

For jurors, Kelly trial lasted way too long

The Alienists

Where experts divide, jury must decide

A Matter of Life or Death

Condemned prisoner’s sanity trial begins