Classifying a death as suicide may be easiest for medical examiners and coroners in the western United States, which reports the highest suicide rates officially.
A new West Virginia University-led injury mortality study combines most drug overdose deaths with all suicides into an expanded self-injury category. Exposing a mental health crisis that has unraveled across the United States over the past two decades, study data have direct implications for suicide prevention efforts.
Expansion of telepsychiatry may outlast the COVID-19 pandemic
Once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, a lot of things will go back to normal. We ll stop wearing masks. We ll crowd into restaurants. We ll walk whatever direction we want to down grocery store aisles. But some changes that the pandemic spurred might be here to stay. Among them: the expansion of telepsychiatry.
This will be part of the new normal. The genie is now out of the bottle, and it isn t going back in.
James Berry, Clinician, West Virginia University School of Medicine
After West Virginia s stay-at-home order took effect in March, Berry was part of the team that transitioned outpatient behavioral-health visits to telepsychiatry at WVU s Chestnut Ridge Center. These visits included group therapy sessions for people with opioid use disorder.
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Once the COVID-19 pandemic is over, a lot of things will go back to normal. We ll stop wearing masks. We ll crowd into restaurants. We ll walk whatever direction we want to down grocery store aisles. But some changes that the pandemic spurred might be here to stay. Among them: the expansion of telepsychiatry. This will be part of the new normal, said James Berry, a clinician with the West Virginia University School of Medicine. The genie is now out of the bottle, and it isn t going back in.
Telepsychiatry meetings likely to continue after pandemic ends, according to West Virginia University Medicine clinicians wvnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wvnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.