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Tag: behavioral health

Sheriff removes leg cuffs from a psychiatric patient after transporting the man from one hospital to another
Posted inMental Health

More NC psych patients are ending up handcuffed in a police car. Why?

by Taylor Knopf December 14, 2020March 28, 2022
Steve North and Amanda Martin of the Center for Rural Health Innovation, which administers the Spruce Pine-based MY Health-e-Schools program.
Posted inChildren's Health

School-based health centers fill rural provider vacuum

by Melba Newsome November 17, 2020February 8, 2021
mom and son standing on front porch
Posted inMental Health

Mental health patients fill the ER, waiting weeks for help

by Taylor Knopf October 13, 2020November 22, 2021
a montage of all the stressors and things to remember as people attempt to cope with covid-19
Posted inMental Health

Managing mental health during COVID-19

by Taylor Knopf May 8, 2020May 7, 2020
a fence is in the foreground, with a dozen men in jumpsuits beyond it, they're sitting on benches and seveal are playing basketball. More inmates with mental illness find themselves in solitary confinement following the 2017 deaths of prison officers in NC.
Posted inPrison Health

After officer deaths, more NC inmates with mental illness find themselves in solitary confinement

by Taylor Knopf December 18, 2019December 17, 2019
Dorothea Dix Hospital was known for almost a century as a lunatic asylum, as seen here in the inset to the 1872 "Bird's Eye View" map of Raleigh.
Posted inMental Health

As a new Dix park gathers momentum, site’s history provides complex context

by Thomas Goldsmith December 12, 2019May 31, 2021

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