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Fifteen states recently sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding. The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Massachusetts voters in 2024 rejected a more far-reaching proposal at the ballot, which proposed decriminalizing the use of psychedelic substances for people older than 21 and allowing people to grow the hallucinogens at home. The proposal would have decriminalized five psychedelic compounds, most notably psilocybin, or so-called magic mushrooms.
Hoosiers suffering mental health crises are visiting public libraries for help — transforming the role of librarians who act simultaneously as researchers, archivists and quasi-social workers.
Mental Health America of Indiana is stepping in to train librarians in how to respond to these crises and direct patrons to reliable information on suicide prevention, addiction treatment and mental health disorders.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said recently it is making available more than $281 million in grant funding opportunities across 15 programs aimed at addressing addiction, overdose and mental illness. The funding opportunities, announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), will support programs focused on substance use disorder treatment, suicide prevention, trauma care, recovery services, workforce development and training for first responders.
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has become one of the most prolific philanthropists of the modern era by writing massive, no-strings-attached checks to non-profits. And her giving spree shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon, despite having donated nearly half of her net worth. Now, the charitable trendsetter is giving millions to support the youth mental health crisis.
Adding more books to your reading list this year? You're booksmaxxing. Incorporating more fiber-rich foods in your diet? That's fibermaxxing. Changing your appearance in hopes of being more attractive? Looksmaxxing. Doing the bare minimum is a thing of the past — unless you're relaxmaxxing, of course.
For researchers on the hunt for the genetic roots of disease, the cost of deep whole-genome sequencing makes it challenging to conduct large genetic studies involving thousands of participants, which are needed to reveal new genetic insights. So scientists at the Broad Institute came up with a clever approach, called the Blended Genome Exome (BGE), that lowers the cost of sequencing by 75% and is becoming one of the most commonly used sequencing methods at the Broad.
As the U.S. recovers from its July 4 heat wave, a new study in Nature Health warns of an impending uptick in people attending hospitals for mental health and behavioral disorders, according to the first multicountry study of heat wave-related mental health hospitalization, led by Monash University in Australia.
More Americans are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) when struggling with mental health challenges. Nearly 1 in 5 young adults have turned to AI chatbots such as ChatGPT for mental health support, according to a CNN report citing recent research.
Social prescribing, which connects people to arts and exercise activities and other sources of support, may help adolescents waiting for specialist mental health services by improving their resilience, behavior and relationships with others, a new study by a UCL team suggests.
When schools closed in the spring of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of children and adolescents receiving mental health treatment in the United States fell by more than half. By 2022, that number had not only rebounded, it exceeded pre-pandemic levels, according to a new national study by researchers from Penn State College of Medicine.
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