April 19th, 2020
By Eileen Weber
In the past two decades, the number of young people 18 and under accessing mental health services has doubled. A recent report showed that one in three children in the state...
January 4th, 2020
By Phyllis Hanlon
August 28th, 2019
By Eileen Weber
Three cases—two murder and one attempted murder—were dismissed in Vermont’s Chittenden County by State’s Attorney Sarah George as a result of legal insanity...
August 26th, 2019
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
Like the rest of the U.S., Vermont has been hit hard by the opioid crisis. Windsor County has seen 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...
March 9th, 2019
By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
Like many states, Vermont is in dire need of mental health reform. Sarah Squirrell, Vermont’s newest mental health commissioner, said there are no easy answers to the complex...
June 12th, 2018
By Janine Weisman
Tags: Brattleboro Retreat, exemption, hospitals, increase bed capacity, Medicaid, Mental health, mental health system, Vermont
Posted in Articles, Leading Stories | Comments Off on VT braces for loss of psychiatric bed Medicaid funding
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June 11th, 2018
By Pamela Berard
May 14th, 2018
By Phyllis Hanlon
Tags: behavioral health, Connecticut, increase in beds, increase in facilities, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, opioid crisis, psychiatric care, psychiatric unit, Rhode Island, Vermont
Posted in Articles, Leading Stories | Comments Off on Mass. increases beds, facilities while other states remain stable
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May 13th, 2018
By Janine Weisman