By STEVE DUNFEY, InDepthNH.org Mental illness is becoming a hot topic like other illnesses. John T. Broderick, Jr. is leading the way in this. Here in New Hampshire and Vermont, Broderick has spent the last seven years speaking about mental illness hundreds of times to school audiences. More specifically, to his experience within his own …
Marin County plans to expand a program to administer drugs to inmates against their will. Last fall, the Oversight Board authorized court-ordered medications to be administered to inmates deemed unfit to stand trial without their consent, if necessary. Before this authorization, detainees had to stay in prison for months until a bed was available in …
Patrizia Bartolomei takes her reborn dolls on therapeutic play dates to meet around 20 other doll owners every three weeks – and says they have improved her mental health Woman Takes Lifelike Dolls to Therapy Group A mother who says she hasn’t seen her children in 22 years has claimed her collection of lifelike reborn …
NY seeks to require parental consent for children to use social media platforms curated by algorithms. New bills would also ban social media notifications overnight and allow parents to limit the time spent on social media per day for minors. New York authorities are pushing to ban internet companies from mining personal data and using …
Many factors influence your mental health, but have you considered the important role geography can play? The mental health crisis in the United States is taking a toll on different populations across the country, for many reasons. Healthcare staffing company Soliant Health has released its research and ranking of US states from best to worst …
A leading group of doctors on Thursday formally withdrew its endorsement of a 2009 paper on excited delirium, a paper that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. In a statement, the American College of Emergency Physicians called the paper outdated and said the term excited delirium should not be used …
Kaiser Permanente on Lawrence Expressway in Santa Clara, California on October 6, 2021. (Harika Maddala/ Bay City News) (BCN) Kaiser Permanente must overhaul behavioral health care services and pay a $50 million fine under a settlement agreement announced Thursday by the California Department of Managed Health Care. As part of the settlement, Kaiser will also …
By Carmelo Garcia Local democracy information service October 13, 2023, 06:22 BST Image source, Getty Images Legend, The waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services is between 18 months and two years. More than 620 children and young people are waiting for mental health care in Gloucestershire, with many waiting for help for …
PSYCHIATRIC VIEWS ON DAILY NEWS Every time men and women are prosecuted because of their race, religion, or political group, that place and time becomes the center of the universe. -Eli Wiesel In Monday’s first column on the Middle East crisis, we discussed some of the basic and traditional ways in which psychiatry can help. …
Worrying about finances is nothing new. But as inflation sets in and the cost of living rises without wages keeping pace, more and more people begin to panic about their money. Financial anxiety has set in for billions of people, some of whom have never felt this acute pressure before. You may not be familiar …