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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]
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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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Read more from the National Institute of Drug Abuse about patterns of drivers, age 12 and older, reporting alcohol and drug use. ... [Full Story]
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Lithium's effect was discovered accidentally by an Australian doctor experimenting with guinea pigs.
Read more about the process by whiche Dr. John Cade learned that lithium had a calming effect in the laboratory. To test the properties of lithium, Cade used took it himself before giving it to 10 patients on an experimental basis.... [Full Story]
Read the proclamation signed 20 years ago, Sep. 29, 1989. This year Mental Illness Awareness week will be observed Oct. 4-11.... [Full Story]
Read more from the opening statement of Sen. Dick Durbin at the (Sept. 15, 2009) Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Hearings, "Human Rights at Home: Mental Illness in U.S. Prisons and Jails." ... [Full Story]
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"Off Label Use of Antipsychotic medications in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System" appears in the September issue of Psychiatric Services. Abstract available. ... [Full Story]
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