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Risk Factors
May 19, 2021

Psychiatric Disorders Linked to More Physical Disease

In an article in the journal JAMA Network Open, Leah S. Richmond-Rakerd and colleagues found that people with mental disorders had more physical disease at younger ages, they had more and longer hospitalizations and associ...
Treatments
April 28, 2017

Adherence to Antidepressants Associated with Lower Mortality

A large study from Israel suggests that over a 4-year period, people who regularly took their prescribed antidepressants were less likely to die of any cause during that period. -- The study, published in the Journal of Cl...
Risk Factors
October 17, 2016

Smoking Ban in New Jersey Jails Drastically Reduced Deaths of Inmates with Mental Illness

Policy changes by the New Jersey Department of Corrections drastically reduced the availability of tobacco products in New Jersey jails between 2005 and 2014. Prison commissaries reduced their stock of tobacco, prices incr...