Funding cuts and program changes required by H.R. 1 are forcing states to make hard choices about the future of this bipartisan experiment.
Mental Health
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Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative
Hundreds of U.S. courts offer treatment over prison for some defendants with mental illness. But critics say mental health courts have outpaced research on their effectiveness.
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Call to Mind: The Fifth Branch
A collaboration with American Public Media’s Call to Mind highlighting how Durham, North Carolina, has reimagined its mental health crisis response system — and what it has learned.
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Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care
Patients are afraid to show up to medical appointments, while workers are being detained, deported or losing their visa statuses.
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A Better Way to Care for Older Adults with Opioid Addiction
How one addiction clinic in Baltimore has found success combining addiction care with support for the many other health problems older Americans often face.
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Mental Illness Left Their Loved Ones on the Streets. California’s Big Fix Hasn’t Helped.
How Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitious plan to force more people into mental health treatment left many families still searching for help.
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Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sarah Stillman explains why so many people with mental illness are starving to death in U.S. jails, who is profiting, and what can be done to prevent it.
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This Federal Experiment Is Pouring Money into Mental Hospitals. Will It Work?
As states struggle to meet the needs of people with serious mental illness, some are signing on to a federal pilot project that’s pouring new funding into institutional care.
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One Scientist’s Mission to Change How We Prevent Overdoses
A leading addiction expert explains how he’s driven by the memory of a friend who died, and why he believes giving data on the drug supply to people on the street is more important than using it to inform national drug policy.
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Watch Tradeoffs and Penn Experts Discuss Cuts to Violence Prevention Programs
The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to violence-prevention programs nationwide are likely to reverse years of progress in reducing gun violence and may lead to a surge in shootings across cities, […]