(Nov. 22, 2016) Individuals released from prison are known to have high rates of violent reoffending. From 2005 through 2010, more than one-third of released US prisoners were convicted of […]
22 November 2016 (Nov. 15, 2016) The dire shortage of beds for individuals in psychiatric crisis is the most obvious byproduct of a half-century of public policy designed to incentivize the closure of […]
15 November 2016 (Nov. 9, 2016) America’s dire psychiatric bed shortage is not news – the Treatment Advocacy Center has been reporting on the shrinking bed supply for nearly a decade – but […]
09 November 2016 (Nov. 1, 2016) In the medicine cabinet of serious mental illness drugs, clozapine – trademarked Clozaril – occupies a number of unique positions.* It is the only antipsychotic approved by […]
01 November 2016 (Oct. 24, 2016) Eric Dishman was diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer when he was in college. He was given two to three years to live. That was […]
24 October 2016 (Oct. 20, 2016) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), now in its fifth edition, has been the bible of mental illness diagnosis since the 1950s. As technologies have emerged […]
20 October 2016 (Oct. 11, 2016) “Who am I, and where is the NIMH headed?” With those words, Joshua A. Gordon, an MD and PhD from the Columbia University School of Medicine, introduced […]
11 October 2016 (Sept 29, 2016) The drumbeat of surveys, studies and statistics detailing the plight of individuals with serious mental illness in jails and prisons continued in the summer of 2016 with […]
29 September 2016 (Sept 20, 2016) The information deficit around mental illness treatment and policy is especially deep on the subject of psychiatric beds, both public or private. Neither the federal government nor […]
20 September 2016 (Sept 13, 2016) Evidence about how severe mental illness impacts individuals and communities is systematically under-studied, overlooked or ignored by government agencies and other organizations. Findings often are barely accessible […]
13 September 2016 (Sept. 7, 2016) Suicide risk – “danger to self,” as it is often called in governing laws – is one of the universal grounds for involuntary hospitalization in the United […]
07 September 2016 (Aug. 31, 2016) If a “miracle drug” that reliably reduced life-threatening symptoms of heart disease and lowered treatment costs were prescribed to only 4% of the cardiac patients who would […]
31 August 2016 (Aug. 23, 2016) Serious mental illness (SMI) is associated with a multitude of consequences that can shorten and reduce the quality of life for those who have it. Arrest, incarceration, homelessness, […]
23 August 2016 (Aug. 16, 2016) Common respiratory, urinary tract and other infections may play a role in triggering acute mania in bipolar disorder, according to a newly released study. Based on a […]
16 August 2016 (Aug. 9, 2016) New research estimates the direct and indirect cost of schizophrenia to US society in 2013 was $155 billion – $44,773 per individual with the disease. By comparison, major […]
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