Mental health plans are 'diluted'
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The government waters down plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients.
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People suffering mental health problems are being failed by poor access to key community services, a watchdog says.
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A charity says 10% of the UK's young people have mental health problems - but experts doubt the findings.
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State officials have agreed to let the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County serve fewer patients this year but said they will keep monthly tabs on the local agency
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Staff shortages have caused a significant cut in mental health services provided in the ACT during the past year, an annual report reveals.
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A blistering audit claims the state&#39;s Medicaid system is in such disarray that 1.4 million pills are missing, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are getting millions of dollars in benefits and abuse of mental patients may be
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NEW YORK  - In a study of patients seen at primary care clinics, nearly 20 percent had at least one anxiety disorder and 41 percent of these patients were receiving no treatment.
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A drug used to treat schizophrenia was mailed to some consumers who had ordered other medications via the Internet, and several users had to seek emergency treatment because they could not breathe, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
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Doctors warn that many mental health patients are being over-prescribed drugs that make no difference at all to them.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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Many Iraq war soldiers, veterans and their families are not getting needed psychological help because a stressed military's mental health system is overwhelmed and understaffed, a task force of psychologists found.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) is expected to propose spending more than $40 million today to begin overhauling the state's mental health system, which has come under intense scrutiny since 32 people were killed this year at Virginia Tech by a gunman with a history of psychiatric problems, according to...
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MENTALLY ill patients were forced to sleep on the floor or kept in seclusion for days because of NSW&#39;s chronically under-resourced mental health system, a forum was told today.
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Nearly two years after Katrina, an overburdened health care system cannot handle the city's mental health emergencies
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Asychiatrists, pediatricians and family practice doctors said in interviews that they would restrict their use of antidepressants in the wake of a federal advisory committee&#39;s decision that the medicines should contain severe warnings about the risks of
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A government epidemiologist said Thursday that his bosses asked him to soften his recommendation that antidepressant use by children be discouraged because of increased suicidal behavior among young people who took the drugs.
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Our position is: State must find a way to provide better support for families of the mentally ill. Pamela Wohlhieter says being the mother of a son with paranoid schizophrenia often feels like crawling out of a &quot;bottomless pit.