advocacy Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Sat, 09 Jun 2018 17:51:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 advocacy Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Deaths of Despair – Suicide & Self Injury Crisis in US https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/deaths-of-despair-suicide-self-injury-crisis-in-us/ https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/deaths-of-despair-suicide-self-injury-crisis-in-us/#respond Sat, 09 Jun 2018 17:51:21 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=15144 The news of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade’s death by suicide as well as the CDC’s report on increasing suicide rates in the US reminds us of a larger public health crisis that was given the name “deaths of despair” by researchers Case and Deaton (see below). We have been collecting information on this topic in preparation for an effort ...

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]]> https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/deaths-of-despair-suicide-self-injury-crisis-in-us/feed/ 0 15144 Huge Victory on Mental Health Parity in California https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/huge-victory-mental-health-parity-california/ Thu, 11 Sep 2014 02:56:33 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8080 On September 10th the California Supreme Court let stand a California Appeals Court decision that the California mental health parity law requires coverage of treatment that may have no equivalent in other medical specialties. Specifically, the Appeals Court held that Blue Shield of California must cover residential treatment for eating disorders. The Court noted that residential treatment was among the ...

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