Integrating behavioral and physical health care is the key.
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Learning to interact with people living with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Combating Mental Health Stigma
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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 »
Should ACA Provide Health Coverage to Undocumented Immigrants?
Chelsea Clinton recently suggested that undocumented immigrants gain access to (unsubsidized coverage). Predictably, she drove the social media world nuts. Do you believe that Hillary Clinton now wants Obamacare for illegal immigrants? She should spend more time taking care of our great Vets! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2016 On the merits, it’s… Read more »
More on the VA “Scandal” That Wasn’t
Last Friday, the Washington Monthly released a major investigatory piece by Alicia Mundy about the 2014 VA “scandal”—the one in which scores of veterans were said to have died as a result of lengthy wait times to see VA doctors. Mundy’s story shows that these allegations were baseless–that they were cooked up by a Koch… Read more »
The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet
Inside the Koch brothers’ campaign to invent a scandal and dismantle the country’s most successful health care system.
Can Text Messages Keep You Healthier?
An innovative experiment looks at whether texting reminders can prompt people to get checkups.
