Mental Health and Recovery in the College Years

Mental Health and Recovery in the College Years

Midway through the fall semester each year, I would meet students who were struggling with mental health and/or substance use disorders who had left an inpatient treatment center in late August and promptly enrolled in school on September 2. They did …

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Adolescent Inpatients Gain Weight in Mental Health Facilities

For the most part, older patients develop metabolic syndrome, but adolescents with mental illness do, too. Health care practitioners do not completely understand why adolescents tend to gain weight during inpatient mental care. How do socio-demographic …

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First defendant admitted to new Northampton County mental health court

… defendant to be accepted into a newly established mental health court, which seeks to stress treatment over punishment. Under the diversionary program, instead of going through the court system, Hydro will spend 90 days in an inpatient treatment …

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Cowlitz County judge: State too slow in helping mentally ill suspects

Superior Court Judge Stephen Warning issued an order Tuesday requiring the state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), which oversees the state mental hospitals, to appear in court next week. “Being mentally ill shouldn't be an indeterminate …

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OP-ED | Shaking the Foundation of Connecticut Hospitals

All Connecticut hospitals treat adults and children with mental health conditions. Proposed cuts to mental health treatment will tax the state's mental health system severely and intensify the already extreme burden on hospital Emergency Departments.

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