Month: November 2015

Edmonton police lobby for the right to take mental health patients to …

Police said they've worked with partners to identify the 19 highest users of emergency services. Of those, 13 have now been housed. The service also offers more training for officers on how to relate to mental health patients.

Group wants vets with PTSD to have access to medical marijuana …

“Veterans have PTSD issues and marijuana has been proven very effective,” said Lincoln Fish, CEO of OutCo Labs, San Diego County's only legal marijuana collective. He says many of his customers are veterans dealing …

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …

Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son …

“Challenger Deep” may be fiction, but it is written from the experiences that Shusterman had parenting Brendan as he went through many diagnoses for mental illness during his teen years. In his acceptance remarks at the …

Drug Helps Those With Tough-to-Treat Schizophrenia – WebMD

25, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The drug clozapine reduces symptoms in schizophrenia patients who don't benefit from other antipsychotic medications, a new study indicates. The finding, culled from an analysis of Medicaid …