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Medicaid 'Unwinding' Cost Kids Access To Asthma Inhalers, Other Chronic Disease Meds

MONDAY, May 12, 2025 — Children and young adults formerly covered by Medicaid are losing access to medications needed to control conditions like depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, asthma and epilepsy, a...

Exposure to Maternal Cannabis Use Disorder Ups Risk for Youth Behavioral Disorders

MONDAY, March 24, 2025 – Children exposed to maternal cannabis use disorder (CUD) during pregnancy and postpartum have an increased risk for later behavioral disorders, according to a study...

Federal Addiction And Mental Health Agency Faces Major Staff Cuts

THURSDAY, March 13, 2025 – A key federal agency responsible for addiction and mental health services is facing deep staff cuts. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration...

FDA Makes Access to Clozapine Easier for Patients With Schizophrenia

FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 2025 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has removed one hurdle faced by patients with schizophrenia when filling prescriptions for the antipsychotic medication clozapine. The...

Behavioral, Developmental Disorders in Children More Common in Recent Years

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 – The prevalence of children's behavioral and developmental disorders increased nationally from 2019 to 2022, with some conditions linked to caregivers' mental well-being,...

Machine Learning May Predict Progression to Serious Mental Illness

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 2025 – It may be possible to predict diagnostic transition to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder from machine learning models using routine clinical data extracted from...

Boarding Common While Awaiting Acute Pediatric Psychiatric Care

THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2025 – Boarding for pediatric mental health (MH) conditions while awaiting acute psychiatric care is common, with significant variation observed in boarding practice by hospital...

Increase Seen in Cases of Schizophrenia Linked to Cannabis Use Disorder

FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 – The proportion of incident cases of schizophrenia associated with cannabis use disorder (CUD) almost tripled from the prelegalization to legalization of nonmedical cannabis...

Weed Use Tied To Increase in Schizophrenia

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 – Schizophrenia cases associated with problematic weed use have skyrocketed in the wake of Canada's legalization of marijuana, a new study says. The proportion of...

Antipsychotics at Doses >75 mg a Day Linked to Risk for Tardive Dyskinesia

FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 – Antipsychotics at doses >75 mg/day are associated with an increased risk for tardive dyskinesia (TD), according to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical...

Pandemic Led to Rapid Adoption of Telemental Health for Those With Schizophrenia

FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 – For Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia, delivery of mental health care through telehealth (telemental health care) diffused rapidly after onset of the COVID-19...

Guidance Issued for Use of Metformin to Prevent Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain

MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2024 – In a guideline published online Dec. 9 in Schizophrenia Bulletin, recommendations are presented for the use of metformin to prevent antipsychotic-induced weight gain (AIWG)....

The Number of Homeless People in the U.S. Has Increased

MONDAY Dec. 30, 2024 – The number of homeless individuals in the U.S. increased by 18% between January 2023 and January 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)....

Need Some 'Alone Time'? It's Vital to Mental Health for Many

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2024 – The hectic holidays play havoc on people’s nerves, not the least because they aren’t able to have any time to themselves. Nearly half (46%) of Americans say they don’t get the...

Risk for Schizophrenia Increased With ED Visits Involving Hallucinogen Use

THURSDAY, Nov. 21, 2024 – In individuals without a history of psychosis, the risk for developing a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) is increased for individuals with an emergency department...

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