Posted on November 27, 2018
Today.com
Looks at how saying insensitive or misleading things about psychiatric medicines can make people less likely to seek treatment or take medication as prescribed.
READ MOREPosted on November 21, 2018
Reports on a proposed 10-year plan for New Hampshire’s mental health system envisions a regional hub-and-spoke model that provides access to a continuum of services, from prevention and early intervention to crisis and inpatient care.
READ MOREPosted on November 19, 2018
Kaiser Health News
Reports that public health and mental health experts counter that blaming the violence on the mentally ill is unfair and inaccurate, pointing instead to lax gun laws.
READ MOREPosted on November 19, 2018
The New York Times
Reports that despite billions of dollars in research funding, and thousands of journal articles, biological psychiatry has given doctors and patients little of practical value, never mind a cause or a cure. Millions of individuals who develop a disabling mental illness either recover entirely or learn to manage their distress in ways that give them back a full life. They constitute a deep reservoir of scientific data that until recently has not been tapped. To push beyond the futility of the last 40 years, scientists need to work not only from the bottom up, with genetics, but also from the top down, guided by individuals who have struggled with mental illness and come out the other side.
READ MOREPosted on November 15, 2018
Slate.com
Reports on the decision by CMS to allow states to provide more inpatient treatment for people with serious mental illness by tapping Medicaid.
READ MOREPosted on November 13, 2018
Associated Press
Discusses the class action lawsuit filed by the New Hampshire chapter of the ACLU on behalf of psychiatric patients being involuntarily held in hospital emergency departments.
READ MOREPosted on November 13, 2018
Associated Press
The administration on Tuesday allowed states to provide more inpatient treatment for people with serious mental illness by tapping Medicaid, a potentially far-reaching move to address issues from homelessness to violence.
READ MOREPosted on November 9, 2018
NPR
Reports on a new study published in JAMA that shows how the effects of childhood trauma persist and are linked to mental illness and addiction in adulthood. Researchers suggest that it might be more effective to approach trauma as a public health crisis than to limit treatment to individuals.
READ MOREPosted on November 8, 2018
Discusses the Thousand Oaks gunman’s history of possible PTSD and the fact that there is not a link between mental illness and mass shootings.
READ MOREPosted on November 8, 2018
STAT
Looks at the fact that people with serious mental illness die 10 to 25 years earlier than the general population. In low- and middle-income countries, 90 percent of people with serious mental illnesses are outside the formal health care system. There is growing global evidence that shows how to change these disparities including new care guidelines released by the World Health Organization.
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