MASSACHUSETTS HAS just launched a new Behavioral Health Help Line and 25 community-based behavioral health centers that will dramatically expand services to individuals and families dealing with mental health conditions and substance use disorders. […]
Liz Friedman
Posted inHealth, Health Care, Opinion
Peer-led group support offers a way out of our mental health crisis
WE ARE LIVING through an unprecedented, pandemic-fueled, mass-scale crisis of behavioral health. Deaths from suicide and alcohol and substance use increased 20 percent during the pandemic. Rates of depression and anxiety increased 25 […]
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Disability insurers discriminate against women
WHILE MASSACHUSETTS HAS ENACTED the strongest laws in the country to ensure equitable pay for women, the reality is that there is still significant work to be done to ensure […]