The Evolving Health and Social Service Landscape: Promise for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• January 1st, 2018
• co-occurring disorders, community-based care, healthcare reform, integrated care, serious mental illness (SMI), social determinants of health, substance use disorders (SUD), treatment access
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A year has passed since the United States Congress enacted sweeping legislation to address deficiencies in our national behavioral health service infrastructure. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) and 21st Century Cures Act, both passed by the 114th Congress in 2016, authorized a...

The NYSPA Report: Taking Stock and Taking Leave

• By: Barry B. Perlman, MD NY State Psychiatric Association (NYSPA)
• April 1st, 2017
• access to care, behavioral health policy, healthcare reform, Medicaid and Medicare, mental health advocacy, mental health parity, serious mental illness, substance use disorders
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Advocacy must be unending, ongoing work because there is always more to accomplish and always the danger that hard-won gains may be undone. For the past 14 years I have either written or edited the work of guest columnists for the quarterly NYSPA Report in Behavioral Health News (BHN) or in Mental...