Mental Health

  • Read more: LIVE ONLINE TODAY @ NOON: President-Elect Trump’s Health Policy Agenda: Priorities, Strategies, and Predictions
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    LIVE ONLINE TODAY @ NOON: President-Elect Trump’s Health Policy Agenda: Priorities, Strategies, and Predictions

    Webinar: President-Elect Trump’s Health Policy Agenda: Priorities, Strategies, and Predictions Monday, December 19, 2016, 12:00 – 1:00pm WATCH LIVE ONLINE!: https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/president-elect-trumps-health-policy-agenda Submit your questions to the panelists via Twitter @PetrieFlom. Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a live webinar to address what health care reform may look like under the new administration. Expert panelists will…

  • Read more: Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment: The Duty to Prevent Patient Suicide
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    Outpatient Psychiatric Treatment: The Duty to Prevent Patient Suicide

    By Alex Stein In Chirillo v. Granicz, — So.3d —- (Fla. 2016), 2016 WL 4493536, the Florida Supreme Court formulated an important rule for psychiatric malpractice cases. Back in 2001, the First District Court of Appeal decided that psychiatrists assume no liability for an outpatient’s suicide because it is generally unforeseeable. Tort liability, it held, can…

  • Read more: The Newest 21st Century Cures Draft Moderates, But Doesn’t Eliminate, Controversy
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    The Newest 21st Century Cures Draft Moderates, But Doesn’t Eliminate, Controversy

    By Rachel Sachs Earlier this evening, the House of Representatives released the most recent draft of the 21st Century Cures Act. This is the fifth time I’ve blogged about the Act (prior posts here, here, here, and here), which has ballooned from a 200-page discussion draft in April 2015 to a 996-page draft version today….

  • Read more: The Competing Identities of Neuroethics
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    The Competing Identities of Neuroethics

    By Brad Segal This past week week I attended the International Neuroethics Society’s (INS) annual conference in San Diego, California. Neuroethics is multidisciplinary field that grapples with the implications of neuroscience for—and from—medicine, law, philosophy, and the social sciences. One of the many excellent panels brought together scholars from each of these four disciplines to discuss the…

  • Read more: MONDAY (10/24): Health Care after the Election
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    MONDAY (10/24): Health Care after the Election

    Health Care after the Election October 24, 2016 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West AB (2019) Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Description As we approach the 2016 presidential election and change of administration, there are many questions about the future of health policy that the 45th President and Congress will have to address…

  • Read more: Voluntary Firearm Waiting Periods Could Save Thousands of Lives
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    Voluntary Firearm Waiting Periods Could Save Thousands of Lives

    By Shailin Thomas Suicide is one of today’s most pressing public health issues. It’s the second most common cause of death for those ages 15-34, and claims over 40,000 lives every year. Of those, a staggering 20,000 are the result of firearms. To put that in perspective, there are about 30,000 gun deaths overall in the United…

  • Read more: Loneliness as epidemic
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    Loneliness as epidemic

    By Wendy S. Salkin Just a few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an article confirming that, indeed, we are facing an epidemic of loneliness. There is “mounting evidence” that links loneliness to illness, as well as “functional and cognitive decline.” What’s more, loneliness turns out to be a better predictor of early death…

  • Read more: Mental Health First Aid Training in Prisons, Police Departments, and the Presidential Election
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    Mental Health First Aid Training in Prisons, Police Departments, and the Presidential Election

    By Wendy S. Salkin It has been widely reported and acknowledged that many incarcerated Americans live with mental illness. In 2014, the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs’ Association published The Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in Prisons and Jails: A State Survey, a joint report that included the following findings: In 2012,…

  • Read more: New Federal Employee Drug Screening Guidelines to Include Opioid Testing
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    New Federal Employee Drug Screening Guidelines to Include Opioid Testing

    By Jonathan K. Larsen, JD, MPP There is no denying that the United States is experiencing an opioid overdose epidemic. Drug overdose deaths generally in the United States have been associated, at least in part, with increasing mortality rates among white non-Hispanics, which is counter to trends in other wealthy nations. The Urban Institute’s Laudan…