by Jordana Choucair | Oct 11, 2022 | Mental Health
Senator Ron Wyden acknowledged that sweeping mental health reform legislation may be pushed to 2023. Wyden said that he and Senate Finance Committee ranking member Larry Crapo “decided we weren’t going to have the debate about resources and revenue get to the point...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2022 | Mental Health
The Mental Health In America Survey revealed that nine out of 10 adults believe there is a mental health crisis in the U.S. today. More than two-thirds of the respondents identified the opioid epidemic as a crisis rather than a problem and over half viewed the mental...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 3, 2022 | Mental Health
Several states are considering making changes to school absentee rules to support students’ mental health needs. A dozen states – including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Maine, and Connecticut – already...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 30, 2022 | Mental Health
The House passed the Mental Health Matters Act by a largely party-line 220-205 vote. The bill would impose new fines on insurers that don’t follow federal mental health pay parity requirements. The legislation would also direct the Department of Education to...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 30, 2022 | Mental Health
Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that U.S. suicide rate rose in 2021 after two consecutive years of declines. In 2021, 47,646 people in the U.S. died by suicide, up from 45,979 in 2020. The four-percent increase...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 27, 2022 | Mental Health
A Bloomberg article explores how the mental health crisis has led hospitals to create a new kind of emergency unit. Developed at the University of California in Riverside, the Empath (emergency psychiatric assessment, treatment, and healing) centers improve care by...
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