The Rhode Island Senate Health and Human Services Committee is contemplating legislation that would allow post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to be treated with medical marijuana. The bill, introduced by Democratic …
Month: February 2016
Disability Rights Fund Releases First 2016 request for proposals …
The Disability Rights Fund (DRF) – a grantmaking collaborative between donors and the global disability community which supports the human rights of persons with disabilities – today announced its first 2016 grants round, …
These brave mothers' stories must chip away at the stigma of …
This is causing a tragedy on an unbelievable scale: at least one in 10 women suffer from depression in pregnancy or postnatally, but only one in 10 of those women get the help they need. Even for extremely severe forms of illnesses, such as those depicted in … The two women featured in the documentary, Hannah and Jenny, both suffered a severe episode of illness known as postpartum psychosis. To show what this illness is, and why specialist treatment should be …
Underfunding of mental health services has cost thousands of lives …
The report represents an important next step on the road towards improving England's mental health. But with the scale of the challenges currently facing services, the best way to manage need in the long-term will be to direct …
SignHealth says “enough is enough” to government on Deaf mental …
'Mental health services for Deaf people are already shockingly poor. These announcements make a bad situation worse. Most Deaf people do not have access to psychological therapies on the same basis as hearing people.