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Addictions and substance abuse were already steadily increasing and then the pandemic hit. Now, Orange County residents are facing a tough path to recovery.
Orange County residents are seeking new ways to alleviate depression and anxiety after nearly a year of tackling Coronavirus.
Ten months of fighting the Coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll on residents’ already-strained mental health.
There’s been worsening rates of children living in unstable housing and kids hospitalized with mental crises.
The new state audit affirmed that more must be done with the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act to assist those who need long-term assisted outpatient treatment, something I have been advocating for a long time…. Earlier this year I introduced five bills to address and improve the LPS Act.
There was no discussion of how much money would be devoted to the plan or how many doctors or nurses would be treating inmates. Answers weren’t provided after the meeting.
OC’s top elected officials had nothing to say Tuesday when they officially received a report showing jumps in children going to the emergency room for mental illness crises and suicide attempts.
The rate at which children were hospitalized for serious mental illnesses rose 87 percent over a nine year period, according to the annual Conditions of Children in Orange County report.
Plans call for mental health and drug addiction treatment programs to be available to all county residents, regardless of who their insurance provider is, which officials said would be the first facility in the nation to do so.
Orange County jails could widen their funding to treat inmates with mental illnesses while they’re incarcerated, under a bill proposed by California State Senator Tom Umberg (D – Santa Ana).