Efforts to use vagus nerve treatment to help people with depression took off—and then stalled. The FDA approved VNS in 2005 after several trials found that using it for a year alleviated depression in at least 30 percent of patients. Two years later, however, the Centers for Medicare and ...
There is evidence that some health insurers respond to parity mandates by reducing their medical/surgical benefits, thus lowering the bar for MH/SUD parity. Parity laws are also faulted on a number of points: (1) they suffer from significant underenforcement, (2) insurers co...
and other professionals should already know to be cautious with patient-related email and texting, but patients themselves often initiate risky email communication, sending doctors and therapists detailed, confidential, or time-sensitive information in the unwarranted belief that their email will only be...
and other professionals should already know to be cautious with patient-related email and texting, but patients themselves often initiate risky email communication, sending doctors and therapists detailed, confidential, or time-sensitive information in the unwarranted belief that their email will only be...
But before consumer DMHIs can transform access to effective support, they must overcome an urgent problem: Most people don’t want to use them. Our best estimate is that96%of people who download a mental health app will have entirely stopped using it just 15 days later. The field of digit...
"When we can’t see something we take it less seriously but we need to understand that mental health is not just the absence of something wrong," she said. "There are steps we can take to promote it and we need to get aggressive about that." Related Articles MORE: How to get free ...
Brown also encourages those caring for a loved one with a mental illness to seek peer support, noting, “The scarcity of mental health resources, particularly the ones offered on the community level or funded by Medicaid, are so scarce ...
healthfunding last year – the largest commitment in U.S. history to address the overdose and mental health crises. That includes support to states building crisis systems, federal incentives for 24/7 mobile crisis benefits through Medicaid, community behavioral health centers and training for first...
Many officers are reluctant to trust doctors and health experts, especially if they aren’t confident that they already treat members of law enforcement. Police officers are subject to fit-for-duty evaluations. Seeking help to deal with mental health or substance use could affect their performance...
Brown also encourages those caring for a loved one with a mental illness to seek peer support, noting, “The scarcity of mental health resources, particularly the ones offered on the community level or funded by Medicaid, are so scarce that you have no what resources are availa...