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Mashup Score: 0Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers - 22 hour(s) ago
New federal data shows that the suicide rate among Black youth ages 10 to 19 surpassed that of their White peers for the first time in 2022, increasing 54% since 2018, compared to a 17% decrease for White youth. In fact, the suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups.
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Mashup Score: 0Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers - 6 day(s) ago
New federal data shows that the suicide rate among Black youth ages 10 to 19 surpassed that of their White peers for the first time in 2022, increasing 54% since 2018, compared to a 17% decrease for White youth. In fact, the suicide rate among Black adolescents is increasing faster than other racial and ethnic groups.
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Mashup Score: 1For Too Many With Mental Illness, Incarceration is the Default - 10 day(s) ago
More than a million people in America’s prisons and jails have behavioral health conditions. Many of them probably never needed to be there. This nation incarcerates more people than any other country on the globe, with somewhere between 6 million and 6.5 million under correctional supervision, including prisons, jails, parole, and probation. Exact estimates vary slightly, but we in the field agree that about 16% of this population has some form of significant mental illness.
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Mashup Score: 0With Gun Suicides at High, Safety Measures Should Be Discussed With At-Risk Patients - 14 day(s) ago
The most recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) demonstrates that suicide, including firearm suicide, remains a substantial public health concern: In 2022, deaths by suicide in the United States reached almost 50,000—the highest number ever recorded. And more than half, approximately 27,000 of those deaths, involved firearms.
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Mashup Score: 2
In 2022, suicide claimed the lives of an estimated 49,449 people in the United States, making it the 11th leading cause of death nationwide. Research has shown that almost half of those who die by suicide interact with the health care system within four weeks of their deaths. And those who are hospitalized for suicide risk face an elevated risk of dying by suicide post-discharge, making this a critical time for these patients to have access to resources, support, and care that can keep them safe in the event of a suicidal crisis.
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Mashup Score: 2To Improve Patient Care, Clinicians Need Access to Functional Public Health Information - 15 day(s) ago
Health care providers need access to comprehensive health data in order to provide appropriate care to their patients. But specific data about individual patients isn’t enough.
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Mashup Score: 0
Telehealth was a game-changer for people struggling with opioid use disorder (OUD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, with more patients able to start and stay in treatment over the past three years than in previous years. But unless Congress acts, this critical lifeline to care will disappear.
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Mashup Score: 0Congress Should Permanently Extend Telehealth Flexibilities - 19 day(s) ago
During the COVID-19 pandemic, remote prescribing of buprenorphine—an FDA-approved medication for opioid use disorder (OUD)—dramatically reduced barriers to lifesaving treatment for many individuals, including those living in rural areas, racial and ethnic minorities, people experiencing homelessness, veterans, and those with criminal justice system involvement.
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Mashup Score: 3Pew Researcher Seeks to Crack Code on HIV Cure - 21 day(s) ago
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic gained momentum across the United States—and the world—in the early 1980s, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was considered largely untreatable. Scientific strides over the past few decades have changed this outlook dramatically. Today, new methods of prevention, detection, and treatment have helped halt HIV transmission and made it possible for people living with the virus to carry on healthy lives.
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Mashup Score: 2To Improve Patient Care, Clinicians Need Access to Functional Public Health Information - 21 day(s) ago
Health care providers need access to comprehensive health data in order to provide appropriate care to their patients. But specific data about individual patients isn’t enough.
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New data: The U.S. Black youth suicide rate increased 54% between 2018 and 2022. It's time to address mental health care barriers and increase cultural competency, use of screening tools, and research. https://t.co/WvweDohNW8