"Live from the Coroner's Office"

That is the title of an article in last April’s Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy . While this study in has a very small samp...

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In the rush to worry about teen use of illicit drugs (not to belittle that action) we often lose sight of the fact that OTC and prescription...

A while back I ran across an "article" by Glenn Close (sorry, lost the link) in which she wrote: Even as the medicine and therapy ...

We helped sponsor/host an event last Saturday giving folks whose loved ones have died by suicide an opportunity to view a program put toget...

A study out of the Nestle Research Center in Switzerland (no chance of conflict of interest there) demonstrated that 1.4 ounces of dark cho...

In case you missed it in the Tribune: "Eerie events rattle those in the coroner's office"

Last night I was invited to the ITT Technical Institute Program Advisory Committee meeting, sitting with advisors and the program chairman f...

Now here is something you don’t see talked about every day: I had someone come to the office a while back seeking my advice. He had seen all...

One in 5 or 6 people are touched by or are close to someone who has died by suicide or will die by suicide. That is a huge number. As they s...

Interesting, but I’m not sure how much “promise” this experimental treatment really shows: Cocaine vaccine shows promise for recovering add...

Grief does have it purpose, adjusting to the change in your life and dealing with your loss. We deal with grieving folks all the time and no...

Got this on a listserv and I don't see a copyright mark

Do you realize that this is affecting law enforcement agencies? Shooting ranges, gun dealers and bullet manufacturers say they have never se...

It was an interesting week of meetings. Tuesday I presented my 2010 budget to the County Board committees that need to approve it before it ...

We were already on track for a significant increase in the number of deaths in Lake County that involve Coroner office investigation (approx...

(Note: I had thought of this post before I ran across the article that prompted the above post. It became an interesting juxtaposition.) I o...

Now this is a pretty unusual occurrence, but I thought it might be worth a caution. Kids do choke on food, as do folks on the other end of t...

Next week is “National Suicide Prevention Week” so I thought I’d post the “Suicide Warning Signs” from SAMHSA . Last year Lake County had 67...