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Mental health

“Parks aren’t there for making money”

Bristol City Council approves recommendations for savings from its parks and green spaces, allowing ‘low impact’ advertising and charging professional dog walkers.

Hannah Vickers

Features

Dependent drinkers in Bristol are trialing MDMA therapy

The UK’s first ever clinical study using MDMA has started in Bristol, in a landmark moment for the use of psychedelic drugs in psychotherapy.

Matty Edwards

Investigations

Revealed: NHS staff in Bristol are being worked until they’re sick with stress

In the 70th year of the NHS, an investigation by the Cable reveals that those who care for the nation are in need of serious attention.

Adam Cantwell-Corn and Richard Muir

Features

Bristol: Highest number of mental health patient preventable deaths

Highly vulnerable patients have died after NHS failings. Why?

Sandi Dheensa

Features

Mental health: weighing up the options

As social factors play a role in mental illhealth, why is it so often treated with medication alone?

Hannah Vickers

Reports

Transforming mental health provision in schools?

Therapists and educators criticise the government’s proposed changes to how mental health services are delivered.

Hannah Vickers

City

Do you want advertising in your parks?

Anti-advertising campaigners warn that introducing advertising into Bristol’s green spaces could detract from the wellbeing they provide.

Hannah Vickers

Features

Becky Romero’s family: “Our children deserve better than this”

Family of teenager failed by Bristol’s mental health service demand more funding for the sector.

Hannah Vickers

Voices

Watch: Mandem don’t cry. Right?

A Bristol based platform offers a unique space for young men of colour. MANDEM is a Bristol based independent online platform for men of colour, spawned through conversations on the lack of diversity in the media.

Elias Williams

Voices

OCD: fighting a battle inside my head

Nearly 70 overdoses and a stomach full of charcoal: one young woman shares her 18-month experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Anonymous

Edition 12

We need a public good when times are bad

Communities and public services are suffering, the political landscape is in tumult and you can’t go five minutes without hearing somebody shout ‘fake news’.