Like Minds, Like Mine TV Ad (Video, .WMV file)
The last of three TV Ads developed in New Zealand by the Link Minds, Like Mine programme. This highly successful anti discrimination programme has been very effective in presenting to the people of New Zealand how mental health problems affect many of our neighbors and friends.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Compulsion and psychiatry: the role of advance statements (UK)
Editorial in the British Medical Journal - "Most psychiatrists accept reluctantly that from time to time they need to force patients to have treatment against their wishes. The British government's proposed changes to the Mental Health Act will increase compulsion in three ways. They will remove the requirement that a patient's condition must be severe enough to warrant admission to hospital, thus enabling compulsory treatment in the community; they will re-incorporate people with personality disorder; and they will introduce wider definitions of mental disorder and of treatment. Users of mental health services have long been concerned about compulsion and have tried to combat it. ..
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Editorial in the British Medical Journal - "Most psychiatrists accept reluctantly that from time to time they need to force patients to have treatment against their wishes. The British government's proposed changes to the Mental Health Act will increase compulsion in three ways. They will remove the requirement that a patient's condition must be severe enough to warrant admission to hospital, thus enabling compulsory treatment in the community; they will re-incorporate people with personality disorder; and they will introduce wider definitions of mental disorder and of treatment. Users of mental health services have long been concerned about compulsion and have tried to combat it. ..
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Risk of Suicidal Behavior Similar With Amitriptyline, Fluoxetine, and Paroxetine
Medscape Medical News story - "The risk of suicidal behavior is similar for amitriptyline, fluoxetine, and paroxetine, according to the results of a matched case-control study published in the July 21 issue of JAMA. The editorialist relates these findings to recent regulations." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free]. See also the JAMA abstract of "Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicidal Behaviors" (full text available for a fee).
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Medscape Medical News story - "The risk of suicidal behavior is similar for amitriptyline, fluoxetine, and paroxetine, according to the results of a matched case-control study published in the July 21 issue of JAMA. The editorialist relates these findings to recent regulations." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free]. See also the JAMA abstract of "Antidepressants and the Risk of Suicidal Behaviors" (full text available for a fee).
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The Association Between Cannabis and Alcohol Use and the Development of Mental Disorder
Article in Current Opinion in Psychiatry at Medscape - "The authors concluded that although a wide body of research has demonstrated the existence of such associations, the natures of the relationships involved are highly complex in character, and in all probability involve the mediation of a variety of additional factors. It is surmised that many of these additional factors relate to the experience of social exclusion." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].
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Article in Current Opinion in Psychiatry at Medscape - "The authors concluded that although a wide body of research has demonstrated the existence of such associations, the natures of the relationships involved are highly complex in character, and in all probability involve the mediation of a variety of additional factors. It is surmised that many of these additional factors relate to the experience of social exclusion." [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].
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Medscape Journal Scan - Psychiatry, June 2004
"Journal Scan is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts." "med"
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"Journal Scan is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in The American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts." "med"
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Government to cut NHS bureaucracy (UK)
BBC story - "The government is to cut the number of NHS bodies that work 'at arms length' from the Department of Health. The move will save at least £500m which will be diverted into frontline patient care, said Health Secretary John Reid. ..." Among the changes noted, "The Healthcare Commission will take on responsibility for the regulation of care for people detained under the Mental Health Act from the Mental Health Act Commission, which will be abolished."
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BBC story - "The government is to cut the number of NHS bodies that work 'at arms length' from the Department of Health. The move will save at least £500m which will be diverted into frontline patient care, said Health Secretary John Reid. ..." Among the changes noted, "The Healthcare Commission will take on responsibility for the regulation of care for people detained under the Mental Health Act from the Mental Health Act Commission, which will be abolished."
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Task force hearings on mental health and children continue through Friday (Illinois)
Story in the Illinois Leader - "As public forums continue this week throughout the state, more concerns are emerging as parents learn of a new mental health screening plan for Illinois' children ages zero through 18 and pregnant women. 'Children’s Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois,' the 53 page report in which The Children’s Mental Health Act of 2003 is based upon details a vast new bureaucracy which stresses intervention and treatment for all Illinois children from the womb and continues throughout adolescence, at age 18..." See also, at the same source, Illinois launches compulsory mental health screening for children and pregnant women and the full report (Adobe Acrobat format).
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Story in the Illinois Leader - "As public forums continue this week throughout the state, more concerns are emerging as parents learn of a new mental health screening plan for Illinois' children ages zero through 18 and pregnant women. 'Children’s Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois,' the 53 page report in which The Children’s Mental Health Act of 2003 is based upon details a vast new bureaucracy which stresses intervention and treatment for all Illinois children from the womb and continues throughout adolescence, at age 18..." See also, at the same source, Illinois launches compulsory mental health screening for children and pregnant women and the full report (Adobe Acrobat format).
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