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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
January 2003

Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

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October 2001

 

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Developing Competitive SAMHSA Grant Applications
A manual from SAMHSA, based on a workshop "...designed to reach potential community-based grantees and prepare them with the knowledge and practice to articulate comprehensively and attend to the detail required to prepare competitive, well-developed, Federal grant applications." The manual is also available as a series of MS Word files.  
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Chronic Disease Demands Different Treatment, Research Approach
A September 18 feature article at the Join Together site - "Researcher Tom McLellan has long contended that positive addiction-treatment outcomes shouldn't be about abstinence alone, but should factor in a broad range of improvements in areas such as family life, employment, and decreased involvement with law enforcement and the justice system. Addiction treatment, he contends, should be held to the same standards of success used to judge treatment of other chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma, where relapse and noncompliance with therapy and medication are common. But addiction researchers have made the mistake of trying to evaluate treatment as if they were dealing with an acute disorder, not a chronic one, said McLellan, scientific director of the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine."  
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Spotlight on Remission: Achieving an Evidence-Based Goal in Depression and Anxiety Disorders
A Medscape CME unit available as either text or a webcast "to examine the clinical challenges and evidence-based perspectives associated with achieving remission in depression and anxiety disorders." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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16th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress
Medscape coverage of selected sessions of the congress held in Prague. See, especially, Psychoeducation: A Newsmaker Interview With Eduard Vieta ("The strategy provides skills to patients to help them cope with their illness and to avoid relapses by understanding the need for taking their treatments, to help them detect the early warning signs of relapse, and to help them develop well-structured habits"), Increased Antidepressant Use Link to Fall in Suicide Rates and Management of Weight Gain in Bipolar Disorder: A Newsmaker Interview With Joseph Calabrese. [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
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Who Enrolls In A Program For Parents Of Publicly Insured Children?
Health Affairs article - "Although interest in expanding SCHIP coverage to parents has grown over the past five years, few such expansions have actually been implemented. State governments and health plan administrators remain concerned that these expansions will attract only high-risk enrollees, resulting in costly premiums that require large subsidies. We examine characteristics of enrollees in an SCHIP-like expansion program in Alameda County, California. According to our survey data, the program did not experience unfavorable selection. Rather, it attracted a broad range of eligible adults. Enrollees were comparable to the overall low-income population in Alameda County in terms of age, health status, and various utilization measures." The article is also available in Adobe Acrobat format.  
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Supported housing for the homeless is more efffective, but also more costly
Yale University press release - "The combination of subsidized housing and intensive case management for homeless people with mental illness keeps many more people off the street, but at an additional cost of $45 per day housed, or approximately $2,000 a year, according to a Yale study. The study comes at a time of national policy discussions about provision of permanent subsidized housing for the homeless. In fact, President George W. Bush set a goal of ending chronic homelessness in 10 years. Advocates of this approach proposed that decreased expenditure of shelter resources, health care and criminal justice services would offset the additional cost of the program. The Yale study published this month in the Archives of General Psychiatry is the first to examine this hypothesis and suggests that costs may increase, although modestly."  
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Minority Adolescents Receive Fewer Health Services
Brief Ivanhoe Newswire item - "Minority adolescents are less likely than white adolescents to receive necessary health care services -- despite their family income level. According to researchers who reviewed 31 studies on primary health care, mental health care, reproductive health, and asthma services, black youth received fewer primary care services in eight out of 12 studies when compared to whites, and Hispanic youth received fewer services in six out of 11 studies. In terms of mental health, blacks received fewer services in six out of nine studies, and Hispanics received fewer services in three out of six studies..."  
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Addiction treatment program now gentler (Canada)
Story in the Toronto Star - "More than 700 welfare recipients are now involved in a controversial addiction treatment program Ontario plans to implement province-wide by 2005. It's a kinder, gentler plan than the one that critics labelled as "coercive" when it was originally announced in 2000. But one fundamental aspect remains in place: the program is mandatory for Ontario Works recipients in selected regions for whom it's deemed addiction poses a 'barrier to employment.'" The story also surveys some of the response to the program since it was announced in 2000 - " '...We are concerned that the portrayal of addictions as the major impediment to employment stigmatizes a population who are struggling to overcome what are a complex and interdependent set of barriers,' reads a letter from the top administration at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health."  
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Pataki hit for veto of electroshock bill (New York)
Democrat & Chronicle story - "A mental-health group bashed Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday for vetoing a bill to require new reports on electroshock therapy, saying he sided with doctors and hospitals instead of patients.'We’re incensed that the governor would choose the convenience of doctors' over the wishes of patients, said Harvey Rosenthal, director of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services."  
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Beaufort Memorial Hospital to keep mental health ward (South Carolina)
Beaufort Gazette story - "Beaufort Memorial Hospital's mental health unit will not be affected by the hospital's ongoing bed shortage, despite fears that reached all the way to the Beaufort County Council chambers this summer. The hospital's board of trustees Wednesday approved next year's budget, which includes an operational, but perhaps reduced, mental health ward. ... The unit's future has been up in the air for the past few months as hospital officials worked to deal with a bed shortage that causes up to 11 patients a day to remain in the emergency room awaiting a regular hospital room..."  
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