Category Archives: Poverty

Object to coercion, support the right to work – Guerilla Wire

Disability Rights UK is working with DPOs and with the Work Foundation to identify good practice – based on peer support; and with DPOs we have proposals that would make careers massively more flexible, with incentives …

Mental health and debt crisis: we have to act, say thinktank founders …

MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis and ex-Lib Dem adviser Polly Mackenzie to study link between mental health issues and debt.

Risk Factors Help Predict Violence in Adults with Mental Illness …

New research suggest three factors increase the risk of violent behavior among people with mental illness. Investigators discovered alcohol use, engagement in violent behavior, or being the victim of violent behavior predict …

Reducing Inflammation May Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia …

Cognition may improve significantly in schizophrenia patients when they are given anti-inflammatory treatment along with standard schizophrenia therapy, according to researchers at the Medical College of Georgia at …

Mental health problems aren't all in the brain | Clare Allan | Society …

Divorcing mental ill health from its social and political context, as the BBC's recent In the Mind Series did, implies wider issues of inequality or poverty don't matter.