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Providers using more apps in treatment but with caution
By Eileen Weber
Privacy issues are common concern
Since the pandemic, the saying, `there’s an app for that,” is applying to more...
Vermont establishes mental health urgent care centers as alternatives to emergency departments
By Danielle Ray
Vermont is addressing the ever-growing mental health crisis with a forward-thinking idea –mental health urgent care centers across the state, including an inaugural one...
The doctor is in: Calling yourself a Dr.
By Ellen Anderson, Ph.D
What does it mean when a patient addresses you by your first name? Even when offering psychiatric help for the low price of five cents, Lucy (from the Peanuts comic strip)...
NE states consider legalizing Psilocybin
By Beth Negus Viveiros
Bills that could decriminalize psilocybin for therapeutic purposes are under consideration in several New England states.
Psilocybin is the primary psychoactive compound...
Vermont aims for passage of prescriptive authority bill in 2024
By Andrew Cromarty
Could this help the prescriber shortage?
In 2017, Connecticut sought to join New Mexico, Louisiana, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho, and Colorado as the seventh state to...
Study: Vets show decrease in suicidal thoughts, behaviors during pandemic
By Susan Gonsalves
Subset group has these experiences for first time
Some evidence suggests the COVID-19 pandemic led to increases in loneliness, isolation, substance use, and...
Report: 95 percent of prison population has mental health, substance use disorders
By Susan Gonsalves
CT Sentencing Commission aims for data to assist policymakers
A 2023 report from the Connecticut Sentencing Commission found that 95.5 percent of the...
Treatment varies for people with hoarding disorder
By Phyllis Hanlon
More practitioners needed in field
The problem of hoarding went relatively unnoticed as a behavioral issue until the first systematic study of the condition was...
Flood of anti-transgender legislation takes mental health toll on population
By Eileen Weber
Study: One in three report poor mental health often or always
Republicans have launched a series of legislative efforts limiting transgender youth to access...
Study: Homelessness higher in specific demographics
By Eileen Weber
Blacks, Indigenous are most affected
More than 3.5 million Americans experience the public health crisis of homelessness. And demographics play a role in the...