Mental Health

The Tangled Web We Watch: Friends in Therapy Is Bare-Bones Online Comedy at Its Best

Police 'Psychotic Disorder' Hits Some Young Cops Who've Experienced Trauma, Study Says

It would appear to most of us Christopher Dorner lost it, blew a fuse, and went on a psychotic rampage unjustified by whatever workplace wrongs he faced. But, alarmingly, a new study suggests that "psychotic disorder" for cops and other first-responders who face traumatic experiences on-the-job mig ... More >>

Diet Mixers May Make You Drunker Faster

You may get more drunk, and faster, if you mix alcohol with diet sodas rather than mixers containing sugar, according to a new study. And you would be about 20 percent more likely to blow a positive on a Breathalyzer test. This could be particularly problematic for women, who are more inclined to ... More >>

The Meth-Gay Sex Nightmare

Daniel Robison barely escaped the deadly addiction

Sex Addiction One Step Closer To Becoming Recognized Disorder -- UCLA

Listen up Charlie Sheen, Anthony Weiner and the entire porn industry. The good folks at UCLA have come up with a set of scientific criteria for what ails you, a.k.a., sex addiction. And the new guidelines make this one step closer to becoming recognized as a legitimate mental disorder along the lin ... More >>

Alana Stewart Chats About Her New Memoir and Her Marriages to Rod Stewart and George Hamilton

Alana Stewart has been an international model, actress and talk-show host. She added filmmaker (Farrah's Story) and bestselling author (My Journey With Farrah) to her résumé when she set out to document best friend Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer, which Fawcett eventually lost.Stewart's life s ... More >>

R.I.P. Marion Cunningham

California cooking icon Marion Cunningham died yesterday at the age of 90 from complications due to Alzheimer's. Famed updater of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, celebrated author, cooking teacher, and television host, Cunningham profoundly influenced the cooking habits of Americans. That is to say, ... More >>

Los Angeles County National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Fernando Valley Annual Pizza Night

Don't Tell My Mother!

Don't Call Them Hooligans: Meet Ultras, L.A.'s Major League Soccer Superfans

There are two groups of soccer "types" everyone is familiar with. There's the "soccer mom," scooting across town in her minivan with her 2.5 children, and the "hooligan," a soccer fan whose sole purpose in life is to beat the living shit out of anyone who doesn't support his favorite team. There is ... More >>

Carrie Fisher

Rave Drug Ketamine Eyed as Quick Cure for Suicidal Depression

The circle of life, or something like it, has come to the field of severe depression medicine. You see, while ravers often complain of depression because they use up all their happy coupons every Saturday night (often in the form of serotonin-greedy ecstasy), physicians who treat hardcore cases of ... More >>

Oy, Gestalt

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 >>

Marijuana For Trauma-Stricken Soldiers Returning From Iraq? One Proposal Wants to Study Effects of Weed on PTSD Victims

MAPS​Should soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan get treated for post-traumatic stress disorder with ... weed? A proposal to study whether or not marijuana can help vets cope with PTSD is gaining steam. The New York Times took a look at the idea from the California-based Multidiscipli ... More >>

Francisco Sanchez Jumps off 210 Freeway Overpass, Finally Kills Himself After 10 Suicide Attempts, 2 Prosthetic Legs

Google Maps​Over the last decade, 41-year-old Duarte resident Francisco Solomon Sanchez has been engaged in an inner battle between mind and body -- and up until last Friday, the latter refused, against all odds, to quit. The Pasadena Star-News reports that Sanchez "has jumped or threatened ... More >>

Synthetic Marijuana Caused Psychosis For Southern California Users Who Ended Up in a Hospital

Airplane​Maybe the DEA had good cause when it banned so-called synthetic marijuana in an emergency move that took effect in March. Researchers recently revealed that the drug can cause up to eight days of psychosis and, in some cases, "months" worth of mental chaos. And you thought shrooms w ... 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 >>

And Unicorns Exist, Too: Dr. Dre to Debut New Detox Single, "Die Hard," Tonight

​The latest single from the album that lives in our imaginations, "Die Hard," featuring Eminem, will premiere on the finale of Showtime's Fight Camp 360 - Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley tonight at 7PM PST on Showtime and 11AM PST Saturday May 7, on CBS. From a press release that just landed ... More >>

Can Marijuana Make You Psychotic? Possibly, According to New Study

Lauren PaulsenA cloud over the medicinal benefits of pot?​In L.A. marijuana is legal medicine. Mellow, mellow medicine. But can marijuana make you insane in the membrane? Don't blow your smoke in our face for relaying the news here. But the answer seems to be yes, especially if you start ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Do We Blame The Gun?

Glock: American as apple pie (except it's Austrian).​On Tuesday in SoCal Sen. Barbara Boxer finally came out and said what a lot of liberal politicians were probably biting their tongues about: Let's take another look at national gun control laws in the wake of Saturday's Tucson massacre that ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Sen. Barbara Boxer Says Guns Are Partly To Blame

File photo of Barbara Boxer at work.​Nobody knows what inspired Jared Loughner to allegedly do it: Inflammatory political campaigning, marijuana, punk rock, mental illness? But we do know that access to weapons didn't appear hinder a suspect who authorities said opened fire at a Tucson superma ... More >>

Dr. Dre Discusses Leaked First Single From "Detox," 'Kush,' Ft. Snoop Dogg and Akon

"Detox" is almost out of surgery ​The road to sobriety is long, arduous, and full of setbacks. No wonder Dr. Dre's highly anticipated third album, Detox, is ten years into the process, and has yet to come clean. But naysayers who'd given up on Detox as an empty promise can stop shaking thei ... More >>

Los Angeles Is America's Capital Of Stress (And We're Not Talking About Cheap Marijuana)

This kind of stuff stresses us out.​The economy. Traffic. Conan vs. Leno. The Clippers! Yeah, we're stressed. The American Psychological Association's just-released "Stress In America" report says L.A. is the most stressful city in America. Tell us something we don't know. Despite the yoga, p ... More >>

Man, Possibly Mentally Ill, Dies After L.A. Police Open Fire In North Hills

​A man died Thursday after he was shot by Los Angeles police in North Hills, authorities said. The deceased, described as someone in his 20s, might have been mentally ill. Officers were called to the area of Burnet Avenue near Roscoe Boulevard and opened fire about 12:30 p.m., said Officer Ap ... More >>

Tonight: Xiu Xiu Bring Their Art-Shock to The Echo

The Doctor Will Spritz You Now: Xiu Xiu​Dear God I Hate Myself is the latest provocation from Xiu Xiu, the San Jose band formed by Jamie Stewart and assorted collaborators (former Xiu Xiu agit-prop includes albums called Knife Play, Fabulous Muscles and Fag Patrol, songs with titles like "Ian ... More >>

Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman

To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star

Hands-on Therapy

Trailerville

¡Ask a Mexican!: More On Dogs and DUIs

Dance Club Pick: DJ Babu at Boombox

Old school's in session

Full Metal Lotus

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

Medical Drama House Gets Its Own T-Shirt

How great is the show House? Fuck Grey's Anatomy, that show is so lame, I feel bi-polar watching it— is it a farse comedy? a serious medical drama? It can't make up it's mind and just as we're supposed to be freaking out about some pandemic, we're thrust in to some love triangle we could giv ... More >>

Toxin Avenger

A party girl cleans up her tract... er, act during the 21-Day Detox

Dr. Norman Tabachnick, Lifesaver

Running With Nut Jobs

High on Justice

Lessons from drug court

The Ultimate Test

Deciding whose life to spare on death row

Creation Myth

Drugs and musicians, together forever

Chemical Me

A mostly legal cocktail

Drugs & Race Index

Drug War Index

Affliction

Greg Bottoms’ memoir of a family’s struggle with mental illness

Escape From New Bushland

Pass the Ballot, My Friend

Keep ordinary drug users out of the joint

Letters

Speed Sells

A tale of methamphetamine, drug cartels and an amateur chemist named Fester.

Sun Dialogue

A couple of hotheads take on summer’s wily charms

Death Defying

Saving a killer deemed too crazy to die

Last Rights

Convicted murderer Horace Kelly is scheduled to be put to death in less than two weeks despite a Supreme Court ban on executing the insane. Why? His lawyers failed to file his federal appeal.