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For many people, seeking mental health treatment can be a challenging process; for LGBTQ+ individuals, many of these struggles are exacerbated by experiences of oppression and/or insensitivity by people they encounter in the health care system. Despite seeking out mental health treatment at greater rates than their heterosexual and cisgender peers, LGBTQ+ clients face additional challenges due to ingrained systems of oppression.

UMD Senior Lecturer Tom Mauriello and a team of 40-plus former FBI officials, law enforcement officers, prosecutors and forensic scientists believe they may have finally identified the individual responsible for multiple northern California murders in the 1960s: The Zodiac Killer.

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Professors Peter Reuter and Greg Midgette, along with Jonathan Caulkins of Carnegie-Mellon University, advise that both researchers and the general public take the forthcoming findings of the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)—a nationwide, general population survey (GPS) of 70,000 Americans released each fall—with a grain of salt.