May 10, 2012
Is opiate drug use an epidemic in your community?
April 23, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
If we are to continue to ask persons to serve in the military on a voluntary basis, as we have done since the end of the Viet Nam Conflict, they must have the assurance that America will fulfill our implicit compact with them when they are killed or injured. Right now, that is not occurring. Immediate action is needed.
March 25, 2012
Communities are crucial to our health and our quality of life, and social support is the glue that links these life factors together. Going forward, it is very clear that both ACMHA and the field have a major task to incorporate community dynamics, such as social supports and other social determinants of health into our health reform efforts.
March 1, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
On a long flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, D.C., in the brilliant sunlight of a late winter’s day, I had the opportunity to reflect on the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).
February 9, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD, Exec Dir, NACBHDD
February is National Heart Month. Not only is the prevalence of heart problems staggering in the US population, but the mortality from heart attack and stroke among behavioral health consumers and peers is a national disgrace. We must savea million hearts!
February 2, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
Assigned the task of leading a Subcommittee to make recommendations about which topics should become Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators causes one to pause and reflect.
January 25, 2012 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
The DHHS has proposed that a "typical" small business benefit plan be used as the standard to define the Essential Health Benefit required by the Affordable Care Act. However, this minimum standard may fail to provide sufficient care for the nation's 10.5 million citizens with mental health or substance-use disorders.
January 21, 2011 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
As our nights lengthen into fall, darkness has also descended upon our country’s dialogue on National Health Reform. Positions have hardened, and the gulf has widened among our points of view.
January 13, 2011 Ron Manderscheid, PhD
A tragedy of national proportions occurred in Tucson, Ariz., when 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner repeatedly fired a pistol into a group at a Saturday political rally organized by Representative Gabrielle Giffords of the 8th Arizona District.
