This July 3, 2018 file photo shows a Narcan nasal device that delivers naloxone in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, health officials reported that prescriptions for naloxone, an overdose-reversing drug, were skyrocketing, and experts say that could be a reason why overdose deaths have… Continue Reading KDHE Naloxone Shipment Deployed to Saline County
Middlesex County Approves Policy Change to Increase Behavioral Health Awareness and Integration Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Medical Society of NJ, the AMA and community leaders are at the forefront of integrating and delivering comprehensive behavioral health care. Middlesex County, New Jersey Middlesex County and its Department of… Continue Reading Middlesex County approves policy change to increase awareness and integration of behavioral health – Insider NJ
Despite several federal and state laws passed in recent decades to ensure that health insurance companies cover physical and mental health equally, many still do not get the mental health treatment they need. Now, Santa Clara County wants to join the fight for mental health parity. As recently as 2020,… Continue Reading Mental health parity laws don’t work. Santa Clara County wants to act
In 2017, Multnomah County hired a psychiatrist to lead its move to the downtown jail, applauded by disability rights advocates who said it would improve mental health care. Five years later, this psychiatrist left. WW has learned. The position has disappeared from the budget documents. The county won’t say why.… Continue Reading Multnomah County jails also lost their psychiatrist
Marin County plans to expand a program to administer drugs to inmates against their will. Last fall, the Oversight Board authorized court-ordered medications to be administered to inmates deemed unfit to stand trial without their consent, if necessary. Before this authorization, detainees had to stay in prison for months until… Continue Reading Marin County to expand involuntary medication of inmates