August 26th, 2019
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
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Tags: crisis, distress, firearms, gun rights, gun safety, Maine, mental health evaluation, weapons
Posted in Articles, Leading Stories | Comments Off on New Maine law requires a mental health evaluation to remove weapon
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July 5th, 2019
By Eileen Weber
Mentally ill patients often end up in emergency rooms, homeless shelters, or even jails instead of getting much needed psychiatric care. Senator Cathy Breen (D- )
July 5th, 2019
By Catherine Robertson Souter
The images are everywhere. The perfect little family, in a magazine article, on a sitcom, or peering out from every celebrity Twitter post. But for up to 15 percent of couples,...
July 5th, 2019
By Janine Weisman
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July 5th, 2019
By Susan Gonsalves
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July 5th, 2019
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
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Tags: alcohol use, behavioral health, grants, mental health issues, mental illness, non-profit organizations, post-traumatic stress, Rhode Island Foundation
Posted in Articles, Leading Stories | Comments Off on Rhode Island Foundation awards grants to non-profit organizations focused on behavioral health
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July 5th, 2019
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Tags: emergency room boarding, hospitals, legislation, mental health care system, mental health crisis, New Hampshire, treatment
Posted in Articles, Leading Stories | Comments Off on NH aims to reduce emergency boarding
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July 5th, 2019
By Phyllis Hanlon
Statistics show that women are twice as likely as men to experience depression and several types of anxiety; females are...
May 29th, 2019
By Eileen Weber
Massachusetts became the 16th state to ban conversion therapy, a method attempting to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity by treating it as if it’s a...
May 28th, 2019
By Catherine Robertson Souter
For the first time since 1918 during WWI when a flu pandemic swept the nation, life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped for each of the last three years.
Suicide and drug...
