Posted on March 2, 2016
USA Today
Federal law, HIPAA, forbids health providers from disclosing a patient’s medical information without consent, but people with ental illness often need help in making decisions and taking care of themselves, because their illness impairs judgement. Patients may not even realize they’re sick. Excluding families can lead to tragic results.
READ MOREPosted on March 2, 2016
Inside Higher Ed
Almost 50 percent of community college students have reported having current or recent mental health problems. 4,000 students at 10 community colleges in seven states were surveyed.
READ MOREPosted on March 1, 2016
Vox
Two scenarios show what happens when police—and the justice system more broadly—deal with people with mental illnesses: In one, the encounter ends in a violent arrest that increases paranoia toward police. In the other, a situation is resolved peacefully in a way that prevents potential violence in the future.
READ MOREPosted on February 26, 2016
New York Times
Life and disability insurance sometimes penalize women, charging them more money, excluding mental illness from coverage or declining to cover them at all.
READ MOREPosted on February 23, 2016
New York Times
Letter to the editor by NAMI's president responds to "When the Hospital Fires a Bullet" (linked). We should not tolerate Tasers and bullets aimed at people experiencing mental health emergencies in hospitals.
READ MOREPosted on February 22, 2016
Washington Post
Stigmatizing words, stereotypes and portrayals end up helping to shape society’s attitudes around mental illness. You can’t say it’s harmless, because it isn’t.
Posted on February 18, 2016
Future Tense (AU New America Slate)
Co-authored bty NAMI's medical director, the study is the first to examine the stigma of mental illness on social media. weets were compared with those for diabetes. Thirty-three percent were negativer; twice the rate for diabetes.
READ MOREPosted on February 18, 2016
US News & World Report
In addition to children who attend schools on military bases, there are 1 to 1.3 million kids enrolled in public schools whose parents are active-duty military, reserve or veterans, but most principals and teachers aren’t aware if children come from military families.
READ MOREPosted on February 16, 2016
Nesweek
Sometimes a double stigma exists. While society is more accepting of the LGBTQ community, LGBT people may face both a stigma from identifying with a certain sexual orientation and a stma of having a mental health condition.
READ MOREPosted on February 10, 2016
Modern Healthcare
NAMI has endorsed S.2002 introduced by Senator John Cornyn.
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