The Hill (3/16, Choi) reported, “Federal actions during the pandemic led to uninsured rates falling to record lows, especially among Black and Hispanic people, but a new report released by the Commonwealth Fund suggests these improvements are vulnerable to being lost once the COVID-19 public health emergency officially ends in less than two months.”

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— “Coverage gains for Black and Hispanic people during pandemic could be lost with end of public health emergency “Joseph Choi, The Hill , March 16, 2023

Psychiatric News (3/17) reported, “One in five deaths by suicide is related to problems with current or former intimate partners such as divorce, separation, romantic breakups, arguments, jealousy, conflicts, and intimate partner violence,” CDC investigators concluded after analyzing “data from the National Violent Death Reporting System for 402,391 adults who died by suicide between 2003 and 2020.” The findingswere published online March 15 ahead of print in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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— “1 in 5 Deaths by Suicide Related to Intimate Partner Problems, Psychiatric News , March 17, 2023

Healio (3/17, VanDeWater) reported, “Self- and reflected appraisals differed over time between people with depression and people with euthymic mood,” which “indicate people’s alignment of self-perception and others’ perception of them.” The study, which “recruited 252 adults with either depression (n = 76) or euthymic mood (n = 176),” revealed that “temporal self-appraisals and reflected appraisals were not similar in people with depression, but were similar in people with euthymic mood.” The findings were published online ahead of print in the April issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders.

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— “Temporal self-, reflected appraisal differs between people with depression, euthymic mood “Kalie VanDewater, Healio, March 17, 2023

Healio (3/16, VanDewater) reports, “Participation in an outreach program following a nonfatal opioid overdose was associated with lower risk for later overdose death, according to” study data. Researchers “evaluated the rate of opioid overdose deaths per quarter from 2013 to June 30, 2019, in 93 Massachusetts municipalities that had at least 30 opioid-related emergency medical services responses in 2015,” and “there were 58 municipalities with outreach programs by the second quarter of 2019.” The findings were published online March 15 in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “Outreach program after opioid overdose decreases later overdose death “Kalie VanDewater, Healio, March 16, 2023

Psychiatric News (3/16) reports, “Patients who enrolled in a trial of medication treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) who did not start or complete their assigned medication were at greater risk of experiencing an overdose than those who took their medication, according to a study published in The American Journal of Psychiatry,” a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Certain Patients With OUD Remain at Risk of Overdose After Entering Treatment, Psychiatric News , March 16, 2023