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Ill. chief justice: Follow FOID law on mental health issues
Tribune reporterSPRINGFIELD — The chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, citing “gun-related tragedies” and the state’s debate over concealed carry, emphasized in a memo to judges throughout Illinois this week that the state must be notified...Tags: Firearms, Mental Health, Justice System, Judges, Pat Quinn
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State chief justice: Follow law on mental health reporting
— The chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, citing "gun-related tragedies" and the state's debate over concealed carry, emphasized in a memo to judges throughout Illinois this week that the state must be notified when they determine a...
Tags: Firearms, Mental Health, Justice System, Judges, Pat Quinn
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Bereaved Parents meets third Wednesdays
These groups meet regularly. Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group — Third Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., at Lighthouse Senior Living at Ellicott City, 3100 N. Ridge Road, Ellicott City. 410-465-2288. Bereaved Parents, USA — Third Wednesday, 8 p.m....Tags: Minority Groups, Parkinson's Disease, Autism, Arts and Culture, Death and Dying Customs
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Vets At Risk Of Suicide Not Getting Adequate Post-Discharge Care: Report
The Hartford CourantNearly a third of veterans deemed at high risk for suicide don't receive the recommended follow-up care after they've been discharged from Veterans Health Administration inpatient mental health facilities, according to a new report from the VA inspector...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Mental Health, Suicide, Veterans Affairs, Barbara Boxer
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Theater review: Civic's 'Next to Normal' is powerful and painful
Don't expect to leave Civic Theatre's production of the rock musical "Next to Normal" whistling a happy tune. This is, after all, a story about mental illness that delves into some challenging and disturbing areas. But along the way it also gives a...Tags: Next to Normal (musical), Allentown, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture, Behavioral Conditions
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LETTER: Reason For Avoiding Mental Treatment Irrelevant
Debating whether anosognosia is relevant to assisted outpatient treatment in any meaningful way misses the mark [May 4, letter, "Denial Of Illness Not Neurological"]. The meaningful metric that should be used to measure the effectiveness of AOT is the...Tags: Behavioral Conditions
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Another way on California's prisons
Gov. Jerry Brown has made it clear how unhappy he is about having to produce a plan to reduce the inmate population of California's prisons by another 9,000. Under the 2011 realignment law, the state has already lowered the prisoner count by 43,000 by...
Tags: Mental Health, Government, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Executive Branch, Environmental Issues
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Officials trying to stop cycle of repeat jail visits
Daily American Staff WriterIt is hard for inmates to break the cycle of crime — and returning to jail. Somerset County Jail Warden Greg Briggs said at the March jail board meeting that Somerset County has a 41 percent recidivism rate of inmates sent to state prison who...Tags: Prisons, Mental Health, Court Preliminary, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Conditions
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Mom of boy, 16, killed by cops: 'He was bipolar, depressed'
Tribune reportersRelatives say a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police after he allegedly fired at people on the street and then at pursuing officers suffered from a bipolar disorder. But they are still at a loss to explain what happened to their "playful,...Tags: Firearms, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Garry McCarthy, Behavioral Conditions
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LETTER: Blinkered Perception Of Mentally Ill
As the sibling of a person who has managed schizophrenia for 40 years, I'm disappointed by Dr. Larry Davidson's op-ed "Mental Illness Fallacies Counterproductive" [April 27, courantopinion.com]. The problem isn't that psychotic people sometimes refuse...Tags: Schizophrenia, Behavioral Conditions
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Parkville man charged in fatal stabbing of mother, wounding of sister
The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old...
Tags: Prisons, Catonsville, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Witnesses, Hospitals and Clinics
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Forum to focus on mental illness
Lois Knoke and Sandy Peterson, both of Huron, will be the featured speakers at "In Our Own Voice," a program focused on mental illness, 7 p.m. Thursday at Avera St. Luke's Education Center, 709 Sixth Ave. S.E. The presentation, free and open to the...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions
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