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This paper has not gotten a ton of press today... but it is one of the most important #COVID19 releases this week. @CDCDirector @CDCInjury
https://ja.ma/39Ref5k @JAMAPsych
https://ja.ma/39Ref5k @JAMAPsych
I wish they’d included all ED visits in Fig 1.
Because: other than #COVID19 - visits for acute mental Health & substance use crises were ALL we were seeing.
(I’ve discussed, & others have documented, the strange drop in acute visits for other causes)
Because: other than #COVID19 - visits for acute mental Health & substance use crises were ALL we were seeing.
(I’ve discussed, & others have documented, the strange drop in acute visits for other causes)
Now, it didn’t have to be this way. Prevention measures work - even in a pandemic. @miller7 @WellBeingTrust @drjessigold https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/31/deaths-of-despair-wrong-rationale-reopening-country-too-soon/
And others @jeremyfaust @hmkyale have described how increased visits for suicidal thoughts, is not the same as increased number of suicides. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2775359
But the truth is, our doors are the place of last resort for lonely folks.
And without efforts to fix that, we will continue to put bandaids on souls.... which, at some point, fall off.
And without efforts to fix that, we will continue to put bandaids on souls.... which, at some point, fall off.
Takeaway:
“ED care seeking shifts during a pandemic, underscoring the need to integrate #mentalhealth, substance use, and #violence screening and prevention services into response activities during #publichealth crises”... and always.
“ED care seeking shifts during a pandemic, underscoring the need to integrate #mentalhealth, substance use, and #violence screening and prevention services into response activities during #publichealth crises”... and always.
As we begin to plan for a post-pandemic world —- let us not forget this lesson:
Violence and mental health and substance use are fatally intertwined with all the rest of it.
Violence and mental health and substance use are fatally intertwined with all the rest of it.
