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Many Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment Centers Are Reportedly Struggling Amid The Pandemic

USA Today (6/21, O’Donnell) reports that “amid projections of soaring suicide, drug and alcohol deaths from the pandemic-spawned social and economic collapse,” many mental health and substance abuse treatment centers and their patients are struggling. Such facilities have “been largely left out of the murky formula for federal COVID-19 health care funding, which has focused on the immediate financial impact on hospitals caring for patients with the virus and lost revenue from elective procedures.”

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— “As suicide, addiction death projections soar amid COVID-19, treatment centers struggle to stay alive too, “Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, June 21, 2020

Women With Severe Or Recurrent Depression May Be More Likely To Relapse During Pregnancy After Antidepressant Discontinuation, Systematic Review Indicates

Healio (6/18, Gramigna) reports, “Women with severe or recurrent depression were more likely to relapse during pregnancy after antidepressant discontinuation,” investigators concluded in a “systematic review and meta-analysis,” the findings of which were published online in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

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— “Antidepressant discontinuation linked to relapse among pregnant women with depression, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, June 18, 2020

Researchers Identify Traits Tied To Higher Risk For Gun Use In Adolescents At High-Risk For Gun Violence

Healio (6/17, Gramigna) reports researchers found that male adolescents with conduct disorders who were arrested with a gun, and who specifically had “callous-unemotional traits,” had an increased risk of carrying and using a gun in a subsequent crime during the next 4 years. These traits were defined as having limited guilt, reduced empathic concern, reduced displays of appropriate emotion, and a lack of concern over performance in important activities. These findings were discovered after evaluating 1,215 male, juvenile offenders from 3 regions of the U.S. at 6 month intervals for three years, and again at 4 years. The study was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Psychiatric News (6/17) also covers the study.

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— “Specific traits among adolescents increase risk for gun use, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, June 17, 2020

Researchers Examine Relationship Between Maternal Depression And Behavioral Problems In Their Children

HealthDay (6/17, Preidt) reports researchers in Australia found that “children of mothers with long-term depression have an increased risk of behavioral problems and poor development.” The researchers examined levels of depression “in the mothers before, during and after pregnancy,” and “also analyzed their children’s development and behavior.” The findings were published in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.

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— “Mom’s Depression Can Lead to Behavior Problems in Kids, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, June 17, 2020

Young Adults With Mental Health Conditions Report Being Unprepared To Navigate Mental Healthcare In Adulthood

STAT (6/17) reports a person’s 18th birthday can be “what some mental health [professionals] know, anecdotally, as ‘the cliff,’ the cutoff at which teens with mental health conditions are flung into adulthood, often without any preparation for the challenges to care ahead.” Since “young adults are among the most at risk of major mental illness, but are among the least likely to get mental health care,” according to experts, this “is a huge, pressing problem.” When “STAT spoke with teenagers, young adults, and mental health [professionals], and experts across the country to understand the experiences of young people with mental health conditions as they transition from adolescence to adulthood,” some “young people said no one prepared them for the often-complicated reality of navigating mental health care in adulthood: finding a therapist, filling prescriptions, scheduling appointments, shelling out co-pays.”

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— “Facing a broken mental health system, many U.S. teens fall off a dangerous ‘cliff’ in their care, “Megan Thielking, STAT, June 17, 2020

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