Articles, Leading Stories
Grant focuses on housing, health needs
By Janine Weisman
The Providence Center has received a $1.5 million federal grant to work with housing providers and homeless advocates to secure access to behavioral and primary health care...
Cap recommended on addiction treatment
By Pamela Berard
Maine state budget task force recommended a two-year MaineCare limit on Suboxone – a replacement drug used for the treatment of opiate addiction – as part of an effort to...
Program faced possible closure
By Phyllis Hanlon
On Nov. 1, Milestone Foundation, a detoxification program for alcoholics and substance abusers in Portland, Maine, faced possible closure because of perceived non-compliance...
Sleep habits at heart of psychologist’s work
By Catherine Robertson Souter
Ask anyone if they get enough sleep at night and most will say, “No way.” Then ask why not. Full schedules, demanding jobs, social media, television…it all gets in...
Compulsive shopping has repercussions
By Phyllis Hanlon
The Halloween decorations no sooner come down before retailers begin a full-blown campaign to lure consumers into the stores with cash, check or credit card in hand for special...
Mental illness contributes to huge economic burden
By Nan Shnitzler
Disease is typically described in human terms such as diagnosis, prevalence and mortality. But the World Economic Forum took a fiscal approach in a report released this past...
Deficit jeopardizes special education in E. Providence
By Nan Shnitzler
The city of East Providence, R.I., owes Bradley Hospital $4.5 million for in-district special education, a debt that has jeopardized the program and called attention to the...
Holistic treatments help depression
By Jennifer E Chase
The results are in: You can easily enhance how you treat your patients’ depression at the holidays – or any time of year, for that matter – with this simple prescription:...
Psychiatric Advance Directives empower patients, control treatment
By Phyllis Hanlon
The concept of advance directives was born in 1991 when the federal government introduced the Patient Self-Determination Act, which required all healthcare facilities that...
R.I. ranked first for mental illness, suicide attempts
By Pamela Berard
Rhode Island recently was atop two national studies, indicating the state had the highest rate of mental illness and suicide attempts.
In a Substance Abuse and Mental...