AOTNOW
- Dec 1
Preventable Tragedies in MA due to Untreated Serious Mental Illness
Boston News reports Over the course of the past four years, AOTNOW has tracked what we believe to be preventable tragedies here in...
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AOTNOW
- Apr 6
Doctor: Maryland needs assisted outpatient treatment so I can save my patients
By Dr. Cynthia Lewis The writer is a board-certified psychiatrist and director of Adult Psychiatric Emergency Services at the Johns...
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AOTNOW
- Apr 5
Massachusetts weighs letting judges order mental health care
When Ashoke and Vinita Rampuria’s son returned home after taking a year off from college, to complete his course work, he didn’t seem...
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AOTNOW
- Feb 23
20 Years Ago, I Dropped Out of College and Became Homeless
A Personal Perspective: My schizophrenia and its anniversary. Anniversaries are important. They present an opportunity to look back on...
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AOTNOW
- Feb 15
Schizophrenia Caused Eric Smith to Threaten His Mother's Life, but He Refused to Get Help
Like more than half of people with serious mental illness, Smith suffered from anosognosia, a condition where your brain doesn't...
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AOTNOW
- Dec 20, 2022
A missing link in Massachusetts mental health law
Assisted outpatient treatment supervises the patient’s treatment and allows people with mental illness to live in their neighborhoods...
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AOTNOW
- Feb 16, 2022
Survey Details Outpatient Mental Health Care Crisis
By Michael P. Norton 22 WWLP News BOSTON (SHNS) – Providers of behavioral health care say they are experiencing a worsening workforce...
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AOTNOW
- Jan 19, 2022
Death in Darby Canyon reveals schizophrenia’s toll.
Transient man falls through cracks of fractured mental health system. By Kate Ready Jackson Hole News & Guide The last time Rachel...
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AOTNOW
- Jun 7, 2021
Mental health patient died in 2018 after discharge to Boston streets
Advocacy group calls her a victim of 'patient dumping' By Shira Schoenberg Three weeks after CaSonya King entered High Point Hospital in...
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AOTNOW
- Apr 15, 2021
Lack of mental health beds means long ER waits
By SHIRA SCHOENBERG FOUR YEARS AGO, a Pittsfield woman named Christine told MassLive about her experience waiting with her young son in...
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