Category Archives: Mental Health Care

People With Schizophrenia Face Much Higher Risk of Early Death …

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) — American adults with schizophrenia face a much higher risk of an early death, particularly from heart and lung diseases associated with smoking, a new study finds. The rise …

Adults with schizophrenia more likely to die; high cardiovascular …

Adults with schizophrenia were more than 3.5 times as likely to die as adults in the general U.S. population, particularly from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and that implicates tobacco as a modifiable risk factor, …

Psych Central Supports the Bipartisan Mental Health Reform Act of …

mental-health-reform-act-murphy-cassidy-2015 We believe that mental health and behavioral healthcare reforms in the United States are vital. The vision that President Kennedy had in 1963 about accessible mental health …

AAA 2015 Sessions: The Anthropology of Mental Health Care …

Topics in this session will include racial disparities in a mental health court in Canada; the relationship between criminal justice officials, psychiatric crisis, and mental health; dogma and psychiatry; and mental health care …

No, Mental Illness Is Not the Main Cause of Mass Shootings in …

A Washington Post-ABC News poll on gun violence published Monday included a stark finding: "By a more than 2-to-1 margin, more people say mass shootings reflect problems identifying and treating people with mental …