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Colorado needs thousands more mental health workers, and one nonprofit is trying to close that gap. The state is short an estimated 4,400 mental health providers. And the ripple effects are felt across the system. Many community mental health centers can only meet half the demand from patients seeking care.
In a tight budget year, Washington, D.C. school leaders, parents and advocates fear a double whammy of cuts is on the way for mental health services for students. Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing a major shift for school-based behavioral health services: she wants to phase out the city's contracts with a network of community-based organizations providing clinicians to schools and bring those functions under a city agency.
The Alaska Legislature passed a bill requiring the state to develop guidelines for mental health instruction in Alaska school districts. The aim is to place mental health education for K-12 students on par with physical education.
It has been more than 20 years since Miami-Dade County voters approved funding for a facility intended to help people living with mental illness. Yet today, the $51 million Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery remains unopened despite being fully constructed and ready for use.
A new state report says Michigan is in a mental health care crisis. Findings show the state ranks 47th in the country for bed availability for mental health patients. It also shows that 100% of children in northern Michigan travel 100 miles or more to receive care.
More than half of all Americans have used an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot, and one in three teenagers use one daily. AI chatbots, which are the user-facing access point into large language models, are skilled at information retrieval, like finding a recipe that matches the food in your pantry, and assisting with writing, like providing feedback on a resume.
In a landmark case earlier this year, K.G.M. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. et al., a jury held major social media platforms responsible for the mental health harm of an adolescent due to their platforms' addictive design features.
New research from King's College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, a molecule more commonly associated with allergies, plays a separate but poorly understood role in brain function. This study addresses this gap, building the first multiscale map of the histamine system that spans from genetics to behavior and related mental health conditions.
A study published in the American Journal of Managed Care explores how integrating behavioral health care into primary care can improve outcomes and be cost-effective for adults with depression, anxiety and chronic pain who are on long-term opioid therapy.
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