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American Psychiatric Association Wed Apr 10, 2019 APA is protesting the implementation of a ban that goes into effect on Friday, April 12, on transgender individuals serving in the military. As of that day, the Department of Defense (DoD) is requiring transgender service members to follow the standards of their biological sex or be removed... read more
Los Angeles Times By Noam N. Levey Apr 2, 2019 There used to be a lot of health insurance horror stories like Charley Butler’s. After the Montana truck driver was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2016, his insurer balked at paying tens of thousands of dollars in medical... read more
Los Angeles Times By Melissa Healy Mar 27, 2019 After three suicides in 10 days involving people directly affected by school shootings, there’s renewed interest in a condition that psychologists call “complicated grief.” Long after a mass-casualty event, roughly 10% of people experience the enduring or chronic depression and... read more
American Psychiatric Association Wed Mar 27, 2019 The Trump Administration’s recent decision not to protect any part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a federal case challenging the constitutionality of the ACA places the health care of millions of Americans at risk, say APA and five of... read more
American Psychiatric Association Mar 7, 2019 by Linda M. Richmond The proposal would erode the protections now granted to most psychiatric medications in Medicare Advantage and Part D drug plans, subjecting them to prior authorization, step therapy, and exclusion from formulary lists. APA strongly opposes a Trump administration prescription drug proposal aimed at patients... read more
The New York Times By Reed Abelson March 5, 2019 In a scathing decision released Tuesday, a federal judge in Northern California ruled that a unit of UnitedHealth Group, the giant health insurer, had created internal policies aimed at effectively discriminating against patients with mental health and substance abuse disorders... read more
The New York Times By Roni Caryn Rabin Feb 25, 2019 “It is a kind of a new snake oil in the sense that there are a lot of claims and not so much evidence,” said one expert. Cannabidiol, or CBD, a nonintoxicating component of the marijuana plant, is... read more
American Psychiatric Association Wed, Feb 27, 2019 Children separated from their families at the border suffer from “toxic stress,” and some of these children will be significantly impaired for the rest of their lives, APA President Altha J. Stewart, M.D., testified on behalf of APA at a House Appropriations subcommittee today. Some of the factors... read more
An Office Designed for Workers With Autism
The New York Times Magazine What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them? By SUSAN DOMINUS Photograph by RYAN PFLUGER BEFORE BEN HIRASUNA showed up for the first job interview of his life, he went for weeks at a time without leaving his parents’ home in... read more
Scripps Announces New, Larger Behavioral Health Facility
Partnership with leading care provider will increase bed capacity in San Diego County NAMI San Diego February 12, 2109 SAN DIEGO – Scripps Health will develop a new inpatient behavioral health facility in partnership with Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHC) that will provide treatment for three times as many patients as its existing behavioral... read more