Mental illness, drugs and alcohol – a generation of sufferers about whom no-one gives a toss
Jen Smith and Anne-Marie Boxall describe our health system’s failure to provide effective care to people who suffer from both mental illness and drug or alcohol addiction. This group double-slip: they fall between two...
The Intersection of Mental Illness and the ‘Criminal Justice System’ in Australia
Jennifer Smith and Anne-Marie Boxall write, Preventing those with mental illness ending up in prisons should be a high priority. Policies that promote early intervention and enhance mental health crisis teams and other community-based...
Are we planning for failure? The crisis in the mental health workforce in Australia
Jennifer Smith and Anne-Marie Boxall write, ‘the public mental health system had become a revolving door for those with mental illness. Only very complex cases were seen in the public system; their admissions were...
Health: Did you know?
Did you know… That in their recent submission to the Senate Select Committee on Mental Health, the AMA listed mental health as one of the ‘two weakest links in the Australian health care system’,...