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Last month, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which represents major progress into mental health reform. Along with major changes to this country''s mental health system, the legislation provides $1 billion to address opioid addiction, and $4.8 billion to the National Institutes ...
In keeping with this, only 59.1% of high-income countries have specified their national mental health programs. On one hand, the low figures can be explained by the fact that many of these countries have laid down plans in various sectors of mental health (rather than a unified plan) or ...
The mental hospital era was an age of reform, and there is no doubt that patients were treated much more humanely than in earlier times. The era produced a large number of segregated institutions in which a much-higher proportion of the mentally ill was confined than previously. But the medi...
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In the 114thCongress, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015 (H.R. 2646) was introduced in June 2015. It gained a Senate companion in August 2015, with the introduction of the Mental Health Reform Act of 2015 (S. 1945). The more recent Mental Health Reform Act of ...
Reform of the Mental Health Act 1983. London: Stationery Office.Szmukler G, Holloway F. Reform of the mental health act. Br J Psychiatry 2000; 177:196 A 200.Department of Health. (2000b). Reform of the Mental ...
This column describes the current state of resources and practice in mental health care in the Anglophone countries of West Africa: the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, and Liberia. Information was systematically gathered from the five countrie...
Detention of personality disorder offendersTreatabilityAt the beginning of this year, the UK government released a White Paper on Reforms of the 1983 Mental Health Act (MHA) aiming to achieve higher quality, accessible mental health care, as well as empowering people detained under MHA during the...