Why does government make it so hard?
Health Care
Rural America
Vermont is finding a way to deliver.
Drug Treatment
How to separate the good from the bad.
Parity for Mental Health
Time to strengthen enforcement.
Cost and Quality
Integrating behavioral and physical health care is the key.
Better Police Training
Learning to interact with people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Combating Mental Health Stigma
Behind the fight for better research.
A Modest Proposal for Drug Scheduling
I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-roamin’ ’round, Just a wandrin’ worker, I go from town to town. And the police make it hard wherever I may go And I ain’t got no home in this world anymore I am pretty sure Woody Guthrie was not singing about the Controlled Substances Act, but his… Read more »
“Is Your Pain a 7 or a 10?”
My brother-in-law Vincent is now off on a short hospital stay due to an infection. Decades of morbid obesity compromised the circulation to his legs. He’s thus susceptible to chronic infections and sores that require IV antibiotics and other interventions. The hospital nursing staff has been quite kind. Vincent is having a good stay, made… Read more »
If You Want to Reduce Suicide, Medicaid Expansion is a Good Place to Start
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released results this week to document that suicide rates have increased by 24% since 1999. The increase has been especially rapidly among women and among middle-aged people of both genders between the ages of 45 and 64. This is just a huge problem. Quite properly, the… Read more »
Special Report
Successes of Philanthropy
