BY DR. SUZANNE RYBCZYNSKI AND DR. CARMEN LOPEZ-ARVIZU On October 19, 2021, faced with the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on an already strained pediatric mental health system, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children’s Hospital Association declared a “national emergency in children’s mental…
BY GARRY CARNEAL, JD, MA Treating diseases of the brain is as important as treating any physical ailment or condition. Yet, the health insurance industry in the United States has never covered mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUDs) appropriately. As a result, depression, anxiety, addiction and other mental health conditions…
BY DENNIS ROBBINS, PhD, MPH, PATRICK DUNN, PhD, AND ROGER ORSINI, MD Uncertainties attendant to COVID-19 surrounding what to do and not to do, how to be safe and protect have been infused with distraction, confusion, and chaos on multiple fronts. Uncertainty is exacerbated by the high degree of uncertainty spawned by fragmentary…