Oregon Far Behind in Community Mental Health Services, Federal Report Finds
Oregon far behind in community mental health services, federal report finds The share of dollars Oregon spent on the state hospital and residential treatment centers actually increased in 2013 — from 69 percent to 74 percent of the state's mental health funding for adults — while spending dropped for community-based services … Read more on OregonLive.com The United States of Pot Laws Using the most recent data from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration's annual survey on drug use and polling data, it's easy to see which states have the grassroots support needed to spawn legislative action. … Of the 27 states … Read more on Daily Beast Read more... ...
A Solution That Now Looks Crazy
A Solution That Now Looks Crazy “How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System”: That subtitle is the opening shot across the bow in this jeremiad of a book by the psychiatrist Dr. E. Fuller Torrey. It could just as well have … In hindsight, the … Read more on New York Times More than 7000 Oklahomans could lose mental health services, agency leaders … More than 7,000 Oklahomans could be without mental health services if the Legislature doesn't allocate an additional $ 21 million to the state's mental health and substance abuse agency, leaders warned Wednesday. Photo – Terri White, commissioner of the … Read more on NewsOK.com Read more... ...
Twin Cities, Minnesota Trying to Cope With Flood of Cheap, Pure Heroin
Twin Cities, Minnesota trying to cope with flood of cheap, pure heroin SOURCE: Drug Abuse Warning Network, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, accessed 9/12/2012. These weighted estimates of ED visits are based on a representative sample of … Read more on MinnPost.com (blog) Sadly there is no cure for windy politicians Oh, irony of ironies — neither our most senior education legislators nor the ruling party's youth wing, nor the leader of the opposition in the province, understands the difference between percentages and percentage points. And to think, they could … Read more on BDlive Read more... ...
Researchers Find That We Use Both Sides of Our Brain for Speech
Researchers find that we use both sides of our brain for speech We use both sides of our brain for speech, a finding by researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center that alters previous conceptions about neurological activity. The results, which appear in the journal Nature, also offer insights … Read more on News-Medical.net Jan. 8 wreck brings drug arrest Investigators arrived on scene to find a head-on collision which resulted in serious injury to Clark. Babb said Clark was transported to Atlanta Medical Center for treatment. “As investigators began to inventory Clark's vehicle before it was removed … Read more on The Citizen.com Read more... ...
SAC's Martoma Harvard-Expulsion Revealed as Trial Starts
SAC's Martoma Harvard-Expulsion Revealed as Trial Starts Martoma, 39, is charged with conspiracy and securities fraud for allegedly using inside information from two doctors supervising a clinical trial of a drug intended to treat Alzheimer’s disease to make $ 276 million for SAC in 2008. The jury of seven … Read more on Businessweek 92 drug overdose deaths in Westmoreland shatter last year's record Pennsylvania has the third-highest rate of heroin use in the nation, behind only California and Illinois, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The drug is cheap, potent and highly addictive, … Dr. Neil Capretto … Read more on WPXI Pittsburgh Read more... ...
Community Services for Jan. 12
Community Services for Jan. 12 MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF ETOWAH COUNTY offers stress and anger management, domestic violence prevention and parenting classes for adults at the Robert Echols Family Success Center, 821 E. Broad St. The parenting classes are at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. The … Read more on Gadsden Times Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say Combined with traditional therapy, studies have shown that buprenorphine is as effective a tool as methadone in opiate addiction recovery, according to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. However, unlike methadone … Read more on Zanesville Times Recorder Read more... ...