Previously married mothers had higher rates of depressive disorders and alcohol abuse compared to married or never-married mothers, according to a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).

As inmate numbers soar, experts stress effective treatment for addiction and mental illness

In the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers have found that the inpatient length of stay for youth with mental illness fell more than sixty percent between 1990 and 2000, despite concurrent increases in illness severity and self-harm, and declining transfers to intermediate and inpatient care within the same population.

The Department of Health and Hospitals has learned that Louisiana has been selected as a pilot state for the National Alliance on Mental Illness' Family Network program. Louisiana is one of three states to receive this program that will help families receive the most effective and appropriate mental health services for their children.

In December, 17 law enforcement officers from Monroe and 15 from Lake Charles graduated from the first Louisiana Crisis Intervention Team trainings.

Psychiatry and genetics researchers tackle the genetics of early-onset bipolar disorder in children and adolescents

Both men and women with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to have one or more of 46 common chronic health conditions than individuals without mental illness, according to research published in the November 2006 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.