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Research: Care in ER settings difficult for mental health, substance abuse patients, providers
By Danielle Ray
Two professors are part of an effort to shine a light on the challenges of providing mental health and...
RI hospital eligible for $30-$40M Medicaid funding due to standalone psych facility
By Christina P. O'Neill
The state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital (ESH) in Cranston, RI has created a standalone psychiatric...
Mass Shooting and mental illness: Is there really a link?
By Eileen Weber
Mass shootings happen in this country with alarming regularity. When they happen, there is often an...
Telehealth study shows greater likelihood of follow up visits
By Eileen Weber
A recent study published in the JAMA Network Open in late June found that greater use of telehealth...
Schizophrenia: What’s in a name?
By Eileen Weber
For schizophrenia, quite a bit
Should schizophrenia undergo a name change? For many, the answer is...
State of Mental Health in America report highlights trends about access, disparity
By Susan Gonsalves
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than half of the adults with mental illness (27 million) and 60...
Training gives police and first responders tools to deal with people with mental illness
By Catherine Robertson Souter
New Hampshire has seen more than its share of officer-related shootings. In December, the Concord Monitor reported the results of an analysis on police shootings over...
Mental Health Courts: A ‘humane mechanism’ for people with mental illness
By Phyllis Hanlon
In the late 1980s, Janet Reno, then state attorney for Miami Dade County, Florida, founded the first drug...
MHA reports on state of mental health in America
By Phyllis Hanlon
Since 2014, Mental Health America (MHA) has collected and published data related to the status of mental...