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Advocate: Dix Sale Should Help Mentally Ill(external link to News and Observer)

NameDurham Approves Mental Health Agency Lease of TTA (external link to News and Observer)

The Therapist May See You Anytime, Anywhere (external link to NYTimes)

Landlords Fume at TTA Leasing Deal (external link to News and Observer)

Purdue May Resolve the Issue of Dorothea Dix Campus ( external link to News and Observer)

American Psychiatric Association Draws Fire for New Disorders (external link to ABC News)

Smith Named Social Worker of the Year (external link to UNC SSW Contact)

Researching Schizophrenia (external link to Podcast Psych Talk Radio Fred Jarskog)

Schizophrenia Treatment, Drugs and Community Mental Health (external link to Podcast psychtalk radio with Brian Shietman)

Hospital's Funding on Line

Shifts on for Health Agency (external link to News and Observer)

Health Agency Head Resigns (external link to News and Observer)

New Law Designed to Help Crackdown on Meth Labs (external link to Sampson Independent)

Report Rips NC over Mentally Ill Kids (external link to News and Observer)

About 300 Employees Seek Compensation (external link to Journal Patriot)

Overstating Revenue Cited (external link to Journal Patriot)

Report Details New River Collapse (external link to Watauga Democrat)

State Closes Assisted Living Care Center (external link to News and Observer)

FDA Finds Short Supply of Attention Deficit Drugs (external link to the NY Times)

Therapists Revolt Againist Psychiatry Bible (external link to Salon.com)

Operators of New York Group Homes Thrive (external link to NYTimes)

A Great Depression;Why Mentally Ill Patients Aren't Being Treated (external link to Atlantic Monthly)

How Do You Hold Mentally Ill Offenders Accountable? (external link to NPR)

In Treating Disabled, Potent Drigs, and Few Rules (external link to New York Times)

Center Receives Duke Endowment Grant ( external link to Carrboro Citizen)

A Person-Centered Approach (external link to Carrboro Ciitizen)

Charting a Path to Recovery (external link to Carrboro Citizen)

Waking to what Life is About (external link to Carrboro Citizen)

Mental Health Services: Its's the State's Choice (external link to News and Observer)

One in Five US Adults Takes Meds for Mental Illness (external link to LA Times)

Suicide Attempts Can be Predicted (external link to LA Times)

Raleigh Officer Shapes How Police Deal with Mental Ill (external link to Mentally Ill)

Shortage of ADHD Drugs Has Parents Doctors Scrambling (external link to NPR)

Haley: Invest More in Mental Health (external link to Post and Courier)

GEO Care Wants to Open 90-bed Mental Hospital in High Point (external link to Business Journal)

McCory Says Perdue Lax on Mental Health (external link to News and Observer)

Inmates with Mental Illness Neglected (external link to News and Observer)

Inmate Care May Go Private (external link to News and Observer)

28 States, DC Cut 1.7 B in Mental Health Funding (external link to Detroit Free Press)

Brushes with Life Featured in UNC's Endeavors Online

Wake OKS Mental Health Merger (external link to News and Observer))

Wake Commissioners Agree to Merge (external link to N&0)

Patient's Death Could Cost Fayetteville Hospital its Medicaid (external link to WRALTV)

Mental Health Services Start Fresh (external link to Watauga Democrat)

Patients are Not Defined by Their Disease (external link to Daily Tar Heel)

Mental Health Merger Process Continues (external link to Times-News)

NC Cuts Medicaid to Provider After Fraud Charges (external link to Charlotte Observer)

State's Goal to Cut Medicaid Budget Has Not Been Met (external link to Charlotte Observer)

Wake oks Agency for Mental Health (external link to News and Observer)

Mental Health Partnership to help Johnston County

Simplifying the Search for Hospital Beds (external link to wunc radio)

Budget Cuts Take Toll on Mental Health System (external link to Carrboro Ciizen)

Mental Health Authority Eye in Wake (external link to News and Observer)

Mentally Ill People Leaving Nursing Homes (New York)(External link to NY Times)

GSK Pilots Medical Home Model for Privately Insured (external link to Newsobserver)

Lawmakers Tackle Mental Health Housing When They Return (external link to Charlotte Observer online)

Finding Hope and Recovery Through Art (link to UNC Social Work)

Johnston in Need of Kid Psych Beds (external link to TBJ)

Caught on Film (external link to CarborroCitizen)

Mentallly Ill in N.C. Could Face Loss of Homes (external link to News and Observer)

UNC Mental Illness Patients Define Themselves by Art (external link to WRALTV)

Wake Will Revamp Mental Health Care (external link to News and Observer)

State Medicaid Cuts Won't be Easy, DHHS Chief Says

NC Mentally Ill get Help from Feds (external link to WRALlTV)

LMEs Selected to Particpate in 1915 b/c Waiver (external link to NCDHHS)

Should Hospitals be Run by Doctors (external link to NY Times)

The Homeless Struggle with Mental Illness (external link to Daily Tar Heel)

Mentally Ill Patients Could Be Displaced (external link to the Charlotte Observer)

DHHS Secretary Gets Support in Revamping Future of Mental Health Care

State Implements New Mental Health Care Requirements (external link to Carrboro Citizen)

NC DHHS Announces Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA). Dr. John Gilmore, director of the Center participates in the press conference. (external Link to Youtube)

Mental Health Care Agencies Merge (external link to The Carrboro Citizen)

Care for Schizophrenia is Topic of Symposium (external link to the Herald Sun)

UNC, XDS Talk Mental Health Partnership (external link to the Carrboro Citizen)

STEP Program Opens New Gallery of Patient Art in N.C. Neurosciences Hospital (external link to The Daily Tar Heel)

Sister's New Journey (external link to The News & Observer)

Schizophrenia Risk Explored (external link to The Herald Sun)

Art Program Helps Those Coping With Mental Illness (external link to The Herald Sun)

It couldn't happen to me or anyone I love.

About 1 of every 100 people develops schizophrenia; 1 of every 50 develops some other psychotic illness.