DR. WILLIAM HANCUR

Once again, we are reminded that alcohol is the number one drug of abuse in the United States and worldwide. We are also reminded of how...

I'm afraid I was too subtle. Someone close to me said of the blog: "It's a good read". Not exactly the reaction I was going after. For...

I am concerned about the state of the Union or more accurately "Disunion". As a psychologist, I regularly treat couples in distress. ...

As near I can tell, the public health strategy is to "slow the spread" until a vaccine arrives to save the day. They don't say it...

I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone. Despite the CDC pronouncements about the actual number of cases, it seems that every...

A Minute with Dr. Hancur... I learned something new this year both about myself and about life. Like so many of my peers, I experienced...

This has been a very difficult and very confusing period in the course of the pandemic. Every day, there is an armageddon-like...

A Minute with Dr. Hancur... I was troubled to learn last week about the Florida teen who crashed his small plane into a skyscraper,...

A Minute with Dr Hancur -Summer 2001 I want to address two important issues with you in this "Minute". The first is, as promised,...

A Minute With Dr Hancur: Spring 2006 "It's Drugs, Stupid!" This was the title of a New York Times magazine article written in 1995 by...

I am disappointed and dismayed that the media and public health officials continue to use identified new cases as the measurement of...

This is a very difficult post to write. While I am not aware of any underlying conditions that raise the risks for me personally, I have...

Yesterday, another tragic police-involved shooting took place, this time in Atlanta. The circumstances were a little unusual and...

It is June 4th and it seems as if we have lived with restrictions forever. Although most businesses are open again, they are operating...

Perhaps nothing stirs our sensibilities more than a child in need. In today's increasingly complex and turbulent world, children of all...

A Minute with Dr. Hancur Like many of you, I wake up in the morning and turn on the news, more for the weather than anything else. All...

Over the years, I have written many short articles on a variety of healthcare topics. Most were written as a column in the behavioral...