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Substance Use and Mental Health Services at a Crossroads
…services are not available on-demand across New York State. A comprehensive continuum of prevention, treatment and recovery support services is not available in some communities. Advocates maintain that resources for…
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Mental Illness: Myths and Facts
…and don’t even realize it. Myth: Mental illnesses don’t affect me. Fact: Mental illnesses are surprisingly common; they affect almost every family in America. Mental illnesses do not discriminate—they can…
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Integrative Healing: Linking Emotional and Physical Wellness to Recovery
…Body has been established through empirical examination (see Ray, 2003; Pally, 1998) by many different scientific communities (i.e., psychological, biological, and medical). As such, the medical and social service communities…
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Finding the Right Recovery Path: Welcoming Everyone into Treatment
…regular substance use while the reward system is enhanced – leading to increased drive toward using and decrease capacity to use reason and judgment to combat the drive.2 And there…
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24 Organizations Team Up in Westchester’s First Trauma-Informed Systems Change Collaborative
…in better experiences and outcomes for staff, patients, students and communities can be expected. “Many of us in Westchester have increasingly come to realize the pivotal role of trauma in…
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Telephonic Follow Up to a Psychiatric Emergency Room Visit: A Call Center Service Model
…in place a follow up system for people discharged from inpatient units to verify that initial post-discharge outpatient appointments are kept (personal communication, 2008). What is not well established is…
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To End the Drug Crisis, Bring Addiction Out of the Shadows
…Her father – my grandfather – had died. In her grief, she locked herself in her room and would not let me console her. The memory of my inability to…
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Focus on Addiction Psychiatry: An Interview with Petros Levounis, MD, President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
…the mental health community finds itself somewhat unprepared for this barrage of excitement and interest – a truly unique moment that we need to understand and take advantage of. We…
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Turn and Face the Change: Children’s Medicaid Redesign
…But change almost always provides opportunities – to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.” – Klaus Schwab For more information about WellLife…
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A Human Right Still Unmet: Medical Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners
…recidivism. Disadvantaged neighborhoods, communities with high rates of unemployment, poverty and substance abuse – which disproportionately affect people with severe mental illness – are associated with criminal justice involvement, noted…
