The program helps hospital colleagues discuss strategies to end the stigma around mental health and provide assistance in creating a work environment that is free “Stigma is hugely prominent in the health care industry,” …
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Despite law, mentally ill wait in jail without treatment | Minnesota …
Legislation attempted to ensure that inmates with mental illness would wait no longer than two days for treatment. It helped some, but not all.
How Solitary Confinement Affects People with Mental Illness | World …
For example, approximately one-third to one-half of Indiana's Secure Housing Unit's prison population has mental illness, according to a report obtained in 1997. During the same year, a federal court found that about half of …
A need for mental health care in Scott County – KWQC-TV6
Scott County Sheriff Dennis Conard says some people in jail don't belong behind bars, but rather need mental health care. “I run the largest mental health treatment facility in Scott County,” he said referring to the jail, “And I …
Immunotherapy May Improve Cognition in People With Schizophrenia
“This adds to the growing evidence that inflammation plays a role in patients with schizophrenia and again suggests that targeting inflammation may be a viable therapeutic target, at least for cognitive impairment, which is a …