Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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Centre for Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2025

Forty years ago, on 1 March 1985, Centre for Mental Health was established as a charity, as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development. Since 2010, weve been independent, our funding drawn from grants, donations and commissions for our research, analysis, training, networks and campaigns.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Key findings from the most recent America’s Children in Brief report: Teen Substance Use In OctoberDecember 2020, about 46% of adolescents ages 1217 who used illicit drugs in the past year perceived that they were using those substances “a little less or much less” than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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