According to data from the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems Network Services Organization (VAHHS-NSO), Vermont’s hospitals’ psychiatric units recorded 2,501 new adult inpatient stays in federal fiscal year 2021 (FFY21), from Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept....
More than a decade has passed since the journalist Robert Whitaker authored the controversial exposé Anatomy of an Epidemic, which gathered reams of evidence in support of a central claim that psychiatric medication has hurt far more people than it has helped....
A report by Dario Pio Muccilli News of the apparently imminent demise of the pioneering, community-based mental health system in the Italian city of Trieste created an international shockwave last fall. Since then, activists and politicians have fought back, but only...
• In the fall, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets and the Agency of Human Services announced the receipt of a USDA grant that will fund “expanded stress and mental health services” for Vermont farmers. The state-sponsored nonprofit Farm First will...
Last year, through Act 57, the General Assembly ordered a wide-ranging inquiry into the intersection of criminal justice and mental health in Vermont. The nature of mental health services in correctional settings comprised one area of concern. The legislation...
