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Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage
Because of low reimbursement rates, Harbin said, professionals in the mental health and substance abuse fields are not willing to contract with insurers Health Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage November 30, 201710:38 AM ET JENNY GOLD It has been nearly a decade since Congress passed the Mental Health Parity And Addiction Equity Act, with its promise to make mental health and substance abuse treatment just as easy to get as care for any other condition. Yet today, amid an opioid epidemic and a spike in the suicide rate, patients are still struggling to get access to treatment although there are lot of companies that are still providing…
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Prescription drug abuse leading to more grandparents raising grandchildren
Their daughter had struggled with being bipolar and borderline personality disorder and prescription drug problems and eventually was unable to take care of her two children. Prescription drug abuse leading to more grandparents raising grandchildren By Steffi Lee Published: November 24, 2017, 1:00 pm Updated: November 24, 2017, 5:49 pm AUSTIN (KXAN) – The bond between grandparents and their grandchildren is unwavering and Gail Gallagher remembers the day more than a decade ago that feeling grew even stronger. “The older one took the hand of the younger one and said we’re safe now,” Gallagher said. It was the day Gallagher and her husband, Dr. W. Neil Gallagher, became parents again.…
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OBAMACARE’S DEMISE IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH
A recent CDC report shows that the percentage of adults with serious psychological distress who are uninsured has dropped from 28.1 percent in 2012 to 19.5 percent in the first nine months of 2015. OBAMACARE’S DEMISE IS A LOOMING DISASTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY Look at a map of states president-elect Donald Trump won in November alongside a map of states with the highest rates of opioid prescriptions, and you’ll see they mostly overlap. Look more closely at the data, as one Penn State professor recently did, and you’ll find that Trump outperformed his Republican predecessor Mitt Romney the most in counties where opiate and suicide mortality rates…
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Trumpcare Will Be Catastrophic For People With Mental Health Issues
Experts in behavioral health and lawmakers who have been fighting for mental health awareness vehemently oppose the legislation. Trumpcare Will Be Catastrophic For People With Mental Health Issues House Republicans on Thursday passed an updated version of the American Health Care Act, which could affect the millions of people who live with a mental health or substance-use disorder. Analysis of the GOP bill by various organizations shows a grim outlook. Not only would people dealing with mental health conditions or drug dependency have to pay higher premiums, many may not even be covered. This could have serious consequences, with the country in the throes of one of history’s worst opioid…
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Ten Percent of Adults Have a Drug-Use Disorder in Their Lifetime
People with drug use disorder were much more likely to have psychiatric illnesses, the researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry, as they were… 1.8 times as likely to have borderline personality disorder, when compared to people without drug abuse. Ten Percent of Adults Have a Drug-Use Disorder in Their Lifetime A survey of American adults who land a nice job, revealed that drug-use disorder is common, co-occurs with a range of mental health disorders and often goes untreated. The study, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, found that about 4% of Americans met the criteria for drug use disorder…
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Should I Smile Back Be Categorized as an “Addiction Movie”?
‘She suffers from this,’ you have every expert saying, ‘No, she’s not bipolar, she really has borderline personality disorder …’” Should I Smile Back Be Categorized as an “Addiction Movie”? By Aisha Harris In I Smile Back, which opened this past weekend, Sarah Silverman plays very much against type: She stars as Laney, a wife and mother whose struggle to manage her mental illness threatens to upend her family and relationships. The film has been referred to casually as an “addiction movie” by many critics, as over the course of the film, Laney indulges in drugs, infidelity, and reckless behavior that put her and her loved ones at risk. But…