Click here for The Lancet's Global Mental Health podcast about the global crisis in providing evidence-based services respectful of human rights, especially in low and middle income countries. Disparities The interview corresponds to the opening of the World Federation of Mental Health conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Oct. 17-21.... [Full Story]
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Read more about a new report from SAMHSA. The study, based on 669,000 adults, found gender differences as well as those for alcohol use (longest), prescription pain medications (shortest). ... [Full Story]
Doctors Matthew Erlich and Lloyd Sederer write about the relationship between risk and marketing of psychiatric drugs in an article in the Huffington Post, With Mental Health Drugs, Greater Risk Means More Marketing... [Full Story]
A study in the current issue (August, 2011) of Archives of General Psychiatry indicates that the use of inpatient hospitalization increased nearly 100% for youth between 1996 and 2007. The study was based on hospital discharge data. ... [Full Story]
Under the Affordable Care Act programs to end smoking will be reimbursed under Medicaid.The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the costs to will be outweighed by savings in health costs plus additional savings coming from a healthier workforce. Download the announcement from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ... [Full Story]
Abilify, Zyprexa and Seroquel led the growth of second generation anti-psychotics led spending growth with a combined $1.4 billion. Download the entire report from the IMS, Institute for Health Care Informatics. ... [Full Story]
Read more from NIMH Director Dr. Thomas Insel's blog. ... [Full Story]
A study from the CDC shows a 2.7% increase in suicide as a leading cause of death. Based on information from 2008, data suggest there were 35,933 intentional deaths for all age groups.To read more, you can download a pdf of Preliminary Data for 2008, submitted by the Center for Disease Control's Division of Vital Statistics in December, 2010.... [Full Story]
Read more about smoking, easily the most significant of the preventable illnesses leading to early and excessive death rates. See The Lancet... [Full Story]
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This figure was given during a webchat about the impact of the Affordable Health Care Act for people with a mental health or substance use disorder. Pam Hyde, SAMHSA, and Sec. Kathleen Sibileus participated. To hear or see the entire conversation, go to http://www.healthcare.gov/live/... [Full Story]
This figure comes from an AP report about new approved uses for Merck drug treating schizophrenia. Read more here.... [Full Story]
Read Army Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention from the United States Army.... [Full Story]
This is the figure comes from HRSA, Health Resources Services Administration, and is based on an estimate of 10,000 people for every one provider. In July 2010 a committee was named to review needs and solutions.... [Full Story]
"In 2007, of the 95 million visits made to the emergency department (ED) by adults in the U.S., 12.0 million (12.5 percent) were related to MHSA," reports the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The summary appears in a press release from the here. Or download the entire report (pdf): Mental Health and Substance Abuse-Related Emergency Department Visits among Adults, 2007.... [Full Story]
Learn more from the Suicide Prevention Action Network.... [Full Story]
Read the GAO report, "Reporting of Spending and Workload for Mental Health Services Could Be Improved," released May 2010.... [Full Story]
Read more about this study from the Nov. 2009 issue of the Journal of Gerontology. ... [Full Story]
Read more about the history of St. Elizabeths Hospital, founded in 1855 by Dorothea Dix.... [Full Story]
Read more about housing needs in a report titled Priced Out in 2000. ... [Full Story]
The National Association of State Mental Health Directors Research Institute conducted a survey of the impact of budget shortfalls on state spending for mental health. The report indicates severe cuts in all but three states amounting to $1.82 billion between 2009 and 2011. To read more about threats to services and programs, including crisis intervention, staffing reductions, loss of acute beds for children and adults. Read more from The Impact of the State Fiscal Crisis on the Public Mental Health... [Full Story]
Read more on the website of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality about antipsychotic medicines that were used to control "behavioral symptoms of dementia, such as agitation, irritability, and aggression. This was despite an FDA warning in 2005 that antipsychotic use is associated with an increased risk for death."... [Full Story]
"Last month, France became the first country in the world to remove transsexualism from its official list of mental disorders," writes Gaëlle Faure in Time Magazine. Read more. ... [Full Story]
Read Genes and Circuitry, Not Just Clinical Observation, to Guide Classification for Research about the overlap of depression and bipolar disorder on Chromosome 3, one of the many genes researchers believe will one day influence classification, diagnosis and treatment. ... [Full Story]
Click here to download a pdf of The History of the Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Movement.... [Full Story]
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