http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/384780/life-sentence-winz-killer Today at the High Court in Christchurch, Winz survivors told how they had since been treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Kim Adams, who felt a “whoosh” past her face from a bullet Tully aimed at her, and colleagues Jane Hayman Walker and Leigh-Ann Hydes, all say theyContinue Reading

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/05/23/more-than-a-sport-how-surfing-can-help-mental-health-recovery/ Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, he sat in that hospital for 10 days confronting the illness that had infiltrated his life but he had never spoken about. “It was the toughest 10 days of my life. After hiding it for so long and then being stuck in a place whereContinue Reading

http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/05/26/gaza-wall-silence-child-sexual-abuse/ “It started one night when our son came home late obviously very troubled,” the 30-year-old mother of seven said, speaking to AFP under an assumed name to protect the boy’s identity. “He told me that someone from our extended family and a neighbour took him to an isolated house.Continue Reading

http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/5/251957http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/5/251957 Family First NZ says that the police are right to highlight the activity and concerns around the death of Christchurch 22-year-old Renee Duckmanton, and that statistics and testimonies show that ‘sex workers’ are involved in a high-risk and harmful work and the law has failed them. “Although Nigel LattaContinue Reading

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/ For a glimpse of how treatment works elsewhere, I traveled to Finland, a country that shares with the United States a history of prohibition (inspired by the American temperance movement, the Finns outlawed alcohol from 1919 to 1932) and a culture of heavy drinking. Finland’s treatment model is basedContinue Reading

Elderly man’s body lay ‘for some time’ in Housing NZ apartment – police https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/elderly-mans-body-lay-some-time-in-housing-nz-apartment-police Police were alerted to the elderly man’s body by neighbours who had not seen him for some time at the apartment block in Dixon Street, Te Aro. Police say it appears the body has been thereContinue Reading

‘Forgive Isis’: Girl’s dying request to mother after she is burnt alive by militants in her own home http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/christian-girl-tells-her-parents-to-forgive-isis-after-she-is-burnt-alive-in-her-own-home-a7038611.html A 12-year-old Christian girl who was burnt to death in her home by Isis urged her family to forgive them with her dying breath. The girl’s mother described how jihadi fightersContinue Reading

Young US sex abuse victim rescued after detective work by NZ Internal Affairs https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/young-us-sex-abuse-victim-rescued-after-detective-work-nz-internal-affairs Webb’s laptop and mobile phone were seized in August 2014 after an online video chat website reported Webb’s activities to the Department. “From what was on his phone and from what Webb told me I foundContinue Reading