This July 3, 2018 file photo shows a Narcan nasal device that delivers naloxone in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Tuesday, August 6, 2019, health officials reported that prescriptions for naloxone, an overdose-reversing drug, were skyrocketing, and experts say that could be a reason why overdose deaths have stopped to increase for the …
Despite several federal and state laws passed in recent decades to ensure that health insurance companies cover physical and mental health equally, many still do not get the mental health treatment they need. Now, Santa Clara County wants to join the fight for mental health parity. As recently as 2020, state lawmakers attempted to strengthen …
In 2017, Multnomah County hired a psychiatrist to lead its move to the downtown jail, applauded by disability rights advocates who said it would improve mental health care. Five years later, this psychiatrist left. WW has learned. The position has disappeared from the budget documents. The county won’t say why. It’s not a good situation, …
KINGSTON, Tenn. (WATE) Roane County leaders are working together to help give children a better support system at school when they don’t have one at home. The Roane County Anti-Drug Coalition partnered with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and introduced the Handle with Care program to other local government agencies. Handle with Care provides a …
Marin County plans to expand a program to administer drugs to inmates against their will. Last fall, the Oversight Board authorized court-ordered medications to be administered to inmates deemed unfit to stand trial without their consent, if necessary. Before this authorization, detainees had to stay in prison for months until a bed was available in …
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — Harris County Judge-Executive Lina Hidalgo is back at work after a two-month leave to seek treatment for her mental health. On Tuesday, she spoke with ABC13 about her decision and what she has to say to those who question her ability to hold her position. Hidalgo said her mental health …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Five former inmates at an Arkansas county jail have settled their lawsuit against a doctor who they say gave them the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin to fight COVID-19 without their consent . A federal judge last week dismissed the 2022 lawsuit against Dr. Robert Karas, who was a Washington County jail …