January 31, 2012 News release
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The American Psychiatric Association is proposing a new diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the DSM-5 for autism, which would create a new category called "autism spectrum disorder" to incorporate several previously separate diagnoses, including autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder.
January 25, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
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The DHHS has proposed that a "typical" small business benefit plan be used as the standard to define the Essential Health Benefit required by the Affordable Care Act. However, this minimum standard may fail to provide sufficient care for the nation's 10.5 million citizens with mental health or substance-use disorders.
January 23, 2012 Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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While national figures show that behavioral health workers—and the executives who lead them—make far less on average than others in comparable healthcare jobs, now-departed executives at a well-known New York City-based disability services provider took million-dollar salaries out of Medicaid-funded operations and helped trigger taxpayer wrath.
January 6, 2012 Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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After a decade that has seen a dramatic increase in the per-capita distribution and prescription of opioids and a nearly four-fold increase in opioid poisoning deaths, Ohio legislators last year passed HB 93, a measure which established a range of rules, guidelines, and license requirements to crack down on the operation of “pill mills.”
December 27, 2011 News release
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The Mental Health Commission of Canada is asking Canadians to make Mental Health First Aid part of their New Year's resolutions for 2012.
December 15, 2011 Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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The State of Ohio Department of Mental Health recently awarded $400,000 in “mini-grants” to 14 Ohio counties for re-entry support services aimed at individuals being released from state prisons who have been undergoing treatment during incarceration for mental illnesses.
December 13, 2011 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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Back in April, the U.S. Department of Justice conducted a review of New Hampshire's mental health system in which U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez not only called the state's system "broken," "failing," and "in crisis," but also alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
December 8, 2011 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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This week, the California Department of Mental Health (DMH) released its plan to establish the Department of State Hospitals (DSH), as well as reform the DMH structure and improve the mental hospital system in California.
December 7, 2011 Nick Zubko, Associate Editor
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Last week, leaders of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee held another hearing that questioned the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on its waiting times for veterans to receive mental healthcare.
November 15, 2011 Alison Knopf
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“At least half a million Americans in prison today wouldn't be there if they had instead been ordered to treatment for their substance use or mental
November 3, 2011 Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief
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Get the patient data you need from family and significant others as part of the assessment and addiction treatment process.
October 30, 2011 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
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America's counties emerging as key agents for healthcare service delivery
