mental illness
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PublishedApril 7, 2023
Commentary: Maine must free up psychiatrists to provide much-needed mental health care
Passing L.D. 224 would eliminate the redundant maintenance of certification requirement and allow doctors to spend more time with patients.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2023
Commentary: Maine is an outlier for youth psychiatric treatment
L.D. 181 would require DHHS to eliminate the barriers to providing residential care for Maine young people closer to home.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2023
Lisa Beecher visiting South Portland Public Library to discuss new memoir
Former police chief and detective will discuss her book, "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit," a memoir about mental illness.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2023
Commentary: Police working to repair Maine’s broken system of crisis response
Partnerships with mental health and substance use liaisons allow us to embed skilled professionals with police officers on calls. That’s what a robust, appropriate response looks like.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2023
Our View: Maine Deadly Force Review Panel report doesn’t shed enough light
Failures to deescalate situations we can clearly understand. Why don't we know more about the police interventions that succeed?
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PublishedDecember 15, 2022
Commentary: When are we going to talk about Kanye West and mental illness?
Not everyone can comfortably adjust to being a household name who is watched and recorded by strangers wherever they go.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2022
Maine Voices: Statewide crisis of homelessness demands an immediate response
While faith communities have been working with municipalities and nonprofits to alleviate the desperation, state leadership is required to solve widespread suffering this winter.
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PublishedMay 9, 2022
To help those in crisis, new center in Portland turns to people who’ve faced one
Only half the staff at Living Room Crisis Center are clinicians, like nurses. The rest are peer support specialists, whose life experiences are their credentials.
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PublishedMay 8, 2022
Our View: Too much mental illness goes untreated
The barriers to mental health services, including cost, access and stigma, can be overcome. But first, we have to talk about them.
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PublishedApril 2, 2022
Commentary: Drummer Taylor Hawkins’ death reveals the vulnerability we all share
There is so much more to every story than we will ever see – or than headlines can ever tell us.