Tag: depression

Woman with mental health problems

Anyone who’s suffered through depression knows it can be difficult to get out of bed, much less find the energy to go to work. Mental illness has been on the rise, and depression and myriad other symptoms get in the way of being a productive employee. So it’s not surprising that men and women wit…

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In 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in northern Oklahoma detained one doctor charged with operating a pill mill that prescribed opioids to addicts for the simple reason that he presented “a danger to our community.” While mental illness and unemployment are familiar culprits in the opioid crisis sweeping the country, the environment that people liv…