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Foreign Service Members Offer Candid Views of @StateDept Mental …

Posted: 3:04 am EDT The January issue of the Foreign Service Journal is out. The issue is focused on mental health care for the Foreign Service. Dr. Samuel Thielman, a recently retired regional medical officer/psychiatrist for …

Eleven Disability Groups File Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case

On January 6, Not Dead Yet and ten other national and New York state disability rights organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the New York Appellate Division in support of a lower court ruling dismissing a case …

Better Access to Mental Health Care in Gun Plan Welcomed | WNEP …

WILKES-BARRE — President Obama's executive actions on gun control include spending $500 million to improve mental health care treatment. The idea is to keep those with mental health issues from getting their hands on …

Heavy users of mental health care have substantially different …

While a small number of people account for a disproportionately large portion of health services use, heavy users of mental health care have substantially different patterns of health care use than other heavy users of health …

The California Bar Has Apparently Already Stopped Asking About …

When I clicked through, I saw the following statement (without attribution) that “In California, the State Bar has removed its question asking about mental health diagnosis and treatment.” For the past year or so, I've been talking …