Anita Everett, M.D., began her one-year term as President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) at the conclusion of the APA Annual Meeting in San Diego on May 24. At the same time Altha Stewart, M.D., began her term as APA President-elect.
At the close of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting on May 24 in San Diego, Theresa M. Miskimen, M.D., assumed the role of Speaker of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly of District Branches.
The proposed White House budget released earlier this week calls for draconian cuts to the nation’s health care system, decreases access to mental health and substance use care and puts patients at risk. The APA calls on Congress to reject the proposed budget in favor of a bipartisan solution that ensures Americans get the health care they deserve.
APA renewed its call for a bipartisan solution to health care in the wake of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) release today that indicated that 23 million Americans will lose their health care if a proposed ACA replacement bill is passed.
Many Americans have been directly touched by the opioid crisis - more than a quarter of Americans and more than a third of millennials, report knowing someone who has been addicted to opioids or prescription painkillers. More than two-thirds of Americans, 69 percent, say they “understand how someone accidentally gets addicted to opioids,” according to a new national poll released today by the American Psychiatric Association.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans are extremely or somewhat anxious about health and safety for themselves and their families and more than a third are more anxious overall than last year.
Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, overwhelmingly feel that insurance should cover mental health. Seventy-seven percent of all Americans said private health insurance offered through an employer or union should cover mental health, including 76 percent of Democrats and 81 percent of Republicans.
U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) was presented the American Psychiatric Association’s Jacob K. Javits Award for Public Service today at the APA Annual Meeting here.
As part of the American Psychiatric Association’s annual “APA Gives Back” program, APA President Maria A. Oquendo, M.D., Ph.D., presented a donation of more than $16,000 to this’s year’s recipient, the UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic Project during the Opening Session of the APA Annual Meeting here. Ellen Beck, M.D., Co-Founder and Director of the Free Clinic Project, accepted the check on behalf of the organization.
The Syria Civil War has exposed millions of civilians to extreme physical and emotional trauma. Anxiety is common among Syrian refugee children, affecting more than four in five children, according to research presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in San Diego.
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