Mental Illness May Raise Risk of Being Murdered

Published March 9, 2013

Mental illness may raise risk of being murdered

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Improved housing, financial stability and treatment for substance abuse may also lower the risk of violent crime for people with mental illness, they suggested. The findings show that doctors need to assess the full range of potential harm faced by …
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Don't Miss the Sentinel's Feature on Drug Addiction

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… treatment such as a drug court. On a national level, about 80 percent of criminal behavior is related to drugs and alcohol and 75 percent of those incarcerated are there because of a drug- or alcohol-related crime, according to the National …
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Tennessee physicians lobby at the Legislature

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The day on Capitol Hill will also allow the association to lay the groundwork with legislators on its Safe Harbor Act of 2013, legislation that gives pregnant women that are misusing or abusing prescription drugs a safe harbor from the Department of …
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