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School-Based Mental Health Services Face Opposition In One Connecticut Town

The New York Times (6/5, A1, Barry) reports, “School-based services, which studies suggest can significantly decrease suicidal behavior and substance abuse, have emerged as a first-line policy response” to address the mental health crisis among US children and adolescents. Over the past 12 months, “legislators in more than 30 states have considered an expansion of school-based services, according to Inseparable, a mental health policy group, and eight states, including Connecticut, have passed legislation to do so.” Nevertheless, “before the services reach students, though, they must be embraced by American communities.” The Times detailed the “fierce opposition” expanded school mental health services faced in Killingly, CT.

Related Links:

— “A Mental Health Clinic in School? No, Thanks, Says the School Board “Ellen Barry, The New York Times, June 5, 2022

Patients Between 75 And 80 Years Old Who Take Opioids May Have Increased Dementia Risk, Data Indicate

Psychiatric News (6/3) reported, “Patients between 75 and 80 years old who take opioids have an increased risk of dementia,” researchers concluded after examining “data from 91,307 older people in an Israeli HMO.” The findings were published online May 31 ahead of print in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Related Links:

— “Opioids Linked to Increased Dementia Risk in Patients Older Than 75, Psychiatric News , June 3, 2022

College Athletes Advocating For Closer Attention To Mental Health

According to the AP (6/4), Cailin Bracken, who decided to leave the Vanderbilt University lacrosse team in order to deal with mental health struggles, has written “an open letter to college sports, calling on coaches and administrators to become more cognizant of the challenges athletes face in navigating not only their competitive side, but also their social and academic responsibilities.” Bracken wrote the letter in response to multiple suicides involving student-athletes. Even though it remains unclear “whether U.S. college athletes are taking their lives at a higher rate than others in their age range,” colleges and “universities are starting to pay closer attention to the mental health of their athletes – in varying degrees – and it’s partly because athletes are advocating for themselves and their teammates.”

Related Links:

— “College athletes push mental health to the forefront “Hank Kurz Jr. and Erica Hunzinger, AP, June 4, 2022

U.S. consumers overpaying billions for generic drugs due to business practices by PBMs

The Hill (6/1, Choi) reports U.S. “consumers are overpaying billions for generic drugs due to the cost being driven up by” pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), according to a reportby the University of Southern California. The report said, “Commercial tactics such as spread pricing, copay clawbacks and formularies that advantage branded drugs over less expensive generics have funneled the savings from low-cost generics into intermediaries’ pockets, rather than the pockets of patients.”

Related Links:

— “Industry middlemen driving up prices of generic drug prescriptions as much as 20 percent: research “Joseph Choi, The Hill, June 1, 2022

Certain Factors May Help Address High Rate Of Depression Among Training Physicians, Speaker Says

Healio (6/2, Downey) reports, “Decreased work hours, more treatment, and better sleep and shift length can help address the high rate of depression among training physicians, according to” a presentation given at the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Annual Meeting by Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, director of the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Family Depression Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sen “said the largest driver of depression was found to be work hours.”

Related Links:

— “VIDEO: Decreased hours, more treatment can address depression among physician interns “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, June 2, 2022

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