In Wyoming, the state with the highest suicide rate per capita, experts are pushing for safer storage of firearms as part of prevention, NPR reported Jan. 23.
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HHS is providing $50 million in funding to states to provide school-based medical services.
New York State has spent $192 million of the $2.6 billion it secured in settlements with opioid distributors and manufacturers.
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, based in New York City, has faced protests regarding its migrant facility built to hold up to 1,000 single adult men that opened Aug. 15, according to an Aug. 16 report from ABC 7.
Dungarvin has announced a plan to acquire disability services and housing providers Bridges MN, Bridges WI and Rumi and in September, according to a June 30 news release.
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Racial and ethnic health disparities cost the U.S. $451 billion in 2018, according to a study published May 16 on JAMA Health Network.
Twenty-nine percent of Americans have been clinically depressed at some point in their lifetime, and 17.8 percent are currently either suffering from or being treated for depression, according to Gallup. Both figures are new highs.
CVS Health will now offer free mental health screenings to people through its community-based health program Project Health.
Cannabis use disorder is associated with higher risk of schizophrenia for all demographics, but the connection is strongest for men aged 21-30, according to an NIH study published May 4 in Psychological Medicine.