Bruce E. Levine

Jan 3, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Bruce E. Levine

Clinics offering ketamine infusions and injections for “treatment-resistant depression” are today claiming 24-48 hours remission, and ketamine is also being marketed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. “Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States,” NPR reported early in 2024 (“The Ketamine Economy: New Mental Health Clinics are a ‘Wild West’ with Few Rules”).

Sep 5, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Bruce E. Levine

In the U.S. in 2022, 49,476 people died by suicide, and there were approximately 1.6 million suicide attempts. Not included in suicide statistics is the even more common U.S. “death of despair” of drug overdose death, numbering 107,941 in 2022. While most of us are not attempting to kill our pain in a manner that puts us in the emergency room or the morgue, the majority of Americans are less dramatically trying to disconnect from painful lives.

May 8, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Bruce E. Levine

For those familiar with the disastrous New York Times reporting of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, it will be no great surprise that once again the Times’ trust in sources with self-serving agendas has resulted in reporting that has tragic societal consequences—this time with respect to the treatment of depression.

Mar 20, 2024 | counterpunch.org | Bruce E. Levine

On March 3, 2024, the New York Times/Siena poll reported: “Donald Trump leads Joe Biden, 48 percent to 43 percent, among registered voters.” Millions of Americans are in a state of horror over the fact that millions more Americans are poised to elect as president not just a scumbag, but an in-your-face scumbag. The horrified ask: What will it take for Trump’s supporters to finally become horrified by Trump? How much financial fraud? How much election interference? How many incited insurrections?

Mar 20, 2024 | dagblog.com | Martinn Pengelly |Michael Wolraich |William K. Wolfrum |Bruce E. Levine

If we're gonna say goodbye, or just appreciate the best of our memories, let's get LOUD. And do it for all we've left behind, be they best friends who found another spot or old ones who wander through our memories. Above all? A hat tip to TPMCafe and Dagblog. Where we were born, and where we've lived.