Mental health law plan challenged
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The government is facing the prospect of House of Lords defeat over plans for changes to mental health laws.
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MIAMI - An appeals court ordered the state human services agency to immediately admit mentally ill inmates into state psychiatric treatment facilities, ruling that the department must follow the law despite its claims that it doesn't have the money.
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A federal judge has ruled that groups  attacking a new law requiring Medicaid recipients to show proof  of citizenship do not have legal standing to make such a  challenge, a lawyer in the case said on Tuesday.
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Too many people with mental health problems end up in prison when they need specialist care, a report says.
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Â· Catholic leader demands NHS block on terminationsÂ· Communion challenge to pro-choice politicians
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NEW YORK -- Susan Wezel had been committed to the city's hospital wards more than a dozen times in 10 years. Her psychosis was so deep and debilitating that she lost her career and her relationship with her son, as she refused to take her medication or follow treatment.
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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Patients of a physician who is charged with running a "pill mill" linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue the government, claiming it has put patients in mortal danger and created a public health disaster by prosecuting the doctor.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 14--There is a slope. And it is slippery.   Especially, it seems, regarding issues of public health.   Lawmakers in North Dakota and Minnesota have spent lots of time on health  proposals -- bills that protect us from ourselves.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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An investigation finds people with mental health problems and learning disabilities often receive poor treatment.
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A decision to deny Alzheimer's drugs to patients with mild-stage disease is challenged at the High Court.
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Patients who are violent to NHS staff could be made to pay for their treatment, under Lib Dem proposals.
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A mental health charity is calling for a government inquiry into the link between cannabis and mental illness.
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The Tories seek a change in the law to give people the right to defend themselves in their own homes without fear of prosecution.
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The death of Dr. Wayne S. Fenton raises the question of whether psychotic patients should be forced to take medication.
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A provocative public service campaign on childrenâs psychiatric disorders has raised hackles as much as awareness.