Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Jim Daly will visit Clonmel on Tuesday November 19 to meet with people campaigning for the re-opening of acute psychiatric beds in Clonmel. Hundreds of people took to the streets of Clonmel in September to protest about the under-resourced mental health services in Tipperary, and Minister Daly has been under increasing pressure since then to visit the town. Minister Daly, on a previous visit to Clonmel, described the closure of St.Michaels psychiatric unit as a wrong that had been done and he expressed a desire to put that right. Continue reading →

Photo by Tina Liu | The Rice Thresher Illustration by Tina Liu By Amy Qin 11/6/19 4:02pm Content warning: This piece contains references to suicide, which can be triggering. The 24/7 Wellbeing hotline number is 713-348-3311 Continue reading →

A meta-analysis recently published in The Lancet Psychiatry found that using medicinal cannabinoids to treat mental health disorders cannot be justified, due to a lack of evidence of effectiveness and known risks of the substances. The analysis reviewed 83 studies involving 3000 people from 1980 through 2018 Continue reading →

Smoking tobacco cigarettes could increase the risk of mental health problems such as depression and schizophrenia, research suggests. It has long been known that smoking is more common among people with mental health conditions. Continue reading →

Photographer Sin Davey has been awarded the Wellcome Photography Prize commission and will spend the coming months producing a new body of work, Testament, that intends to explore the relationship between poverty and mental health My hope is to bring people into connection, into their heart, says Sin Davey. Continue reading →

SMITHFIELD, R.I. From his small home office, former Lt Continue reading →