by Jessica Casebolt | May 12, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
New CDC data show that U.S. adolescents made fewer weekly visits to emergency departments for mental health issues in Fall 2022 compared to 2021, but teen suicide and overdose ED visit rates remain high. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened or lifted,...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 9, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Two nonprofits and Teva Pharmaceuticals are expanding donations of medications for anxiety and depression to seven new states, potentially reaching more than 650,000 uninsured patients through more than 400 clinics. Launched last summer with the humanitarian...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 2, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Close to a third of LGBTQ youth say laws and policies that target LGBTQ people have had a substantial and negative impact on their mental health over the past year, according to an annual report published Monday by The Trevor Project, a national LGBTQ youth suicide...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 18, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a final rule yesterday that will require insurers on the Affordable Care Act exchanges to include substance abuse and mental health providers in their plans, among other things. CMS will require insurers to...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 14, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Suicide rates in the U.S. rose in 2021 after two years in decline, federal data showed, driven by more deaths among men in nearly every age group. Suicides rates increased 4% in 2021 from a year earlier to 14.1 deaths per 100,000 people, the National Center for Health...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 12, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grantee National Training and Technical Assistance Center (CCBHC-E NTTAC), in partnership with the National Council and Third Horizon Strategies, have created a toolkit resource after conducting an...
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