Insurance should cover effective and appropriate treatment for anorexia nervosa, which may or may not be residential care, for a particular patient. Adding coverage for any medical illness according to category (e.g., residential care) is usually a bad idea.

Arizona's remarkably progressive involuntary treatment laws might have allowed Loughner's school to act. They permit involuntary evaluation and treatment of a person who desperately needs it.

What responsibility does an institution have to the wider community when it has identified a deeply disturbed individual?

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Since the 1960s in the United States, hundreds of thousands of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat...

The death of Amy Winehouse was caused by more than just drugs or alcohol.

How many veterans fall through the gap between care and compensation is a question that is worth investigating. The scope is important, but there is little question that the problem exists.

On line registration for this event is closed. Walk in registrations will be accepted.The psychological toll of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom “could well be [our] generation’s Agent Orange syndrome,” one veterans’ advocacy group warns. A bill to increase federal spending on mental health treatment...