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Assaults on staff are focus of scathing report at Catonsville psychiatric hospital
In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos...
Tags: Catonsville, Sykesville, Prosecution, Behavioral Conditions, AFSCME
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A test for Md. gun bill
Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun control bill faces a crucial test this week, when it is expected to receive committee votes in the House of Delegates. Although the legislation passed the Senate with strong support — and despite polling showing the vast...
Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Behavioral Conditions, Martin O'Malley, Laws, Personal Weapon Control
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Mental illness and guns: the issue is suicide
Some years ago, I was called by one of my patients who had just suffered severe rejection in a love relationship. She told me that she was on her way to buy a gun but thought she might call me first. I suggested that she come see me before she purchased a...
Tags: Sheppard Pratt Health System, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Suicide, Corporate Officers
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Help is available for college students struggling with mental illness
As someone who has struggled with mental illness for over 20 years, I could closely relate to Kevin Rector's article about students having difficulty finding and getting mental health services at their colleges and universities ("Students struggle for...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Health and Safety at School, Mental Health, Students
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Second Amendment is suffering death by a thousand cuts
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Our Second Amendment is experiencing the "death by a thousand cuts." Perhaps no single gun law will...
Tags: Annapolis, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Behavioral Conditions, Gun Control
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Guns and mental illness
Bowing to pressure from some fellow Democrats in the legislature, Gov. Martin O'Malley has signaled a willingness to compromise on at least one element in the package of new gun restrictions he proposed in the aftermath of last year's school shooting in...Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Behavioral Conditions, Martin O'Malley, Laws, Personal Weapon Control
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College, mental health and guns
After the unfortunate murder suicide at the University of Maryland College Park by a graduate student who used a handgun to commit his crimes, The Sun wrote an editorial urging college campuses to educate their students about the signs of mental illness...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Symptoms, Teachers, Behavioral Conditions, University of Maryland, College Park
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College Park roommate's gun ownership had worried slain student
In the days before police say he was fatally shot by his roommate Dayvon Green outside their College Park home, University of Maryland senior Stephen Rane had expressed concerns about Green having a mental illness and owning guns, according to a close...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Shootings, NASA, Martin O'Malley, Behavioral Conditions
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Campus nightmare
There is still much we do not know about Dayvon Green, the University of Maryland, College Park student who police say fatally shot one of his roommates, Stephen Alex Rane, and seriously wounded another outside their off-campus apartment before taking his...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Shootings, Symptoms, Martin O'Malley, Behavioral Conditions
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Injured roommate in College Park shooting ran for his life
Dayvon Green, Stephen Rane and Neal Oa didn't know one another before becoming roommates last fall, sharing a modest split-level house in a subdivision across from the University of Maryland, College Park. But Oa came to regard Green as a friend, making...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Shootings, NASA, Behavioral Conditions, Technology
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Baltimore officer cleared of charges in shooting of man from inside police vehicle
A Baltimore police officer who last year shot a knife-wielding man through the windshield of his car while seated inside the vehicle has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the city state’s attorney’s office. The April 10, 2012 shooting...Tags: Shootings, Justice System, Behavioral Conditions, Manufacturing and Engineering, Automotive Equipment
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Psychiatrists, mental health advocates uneasy with gun policy prescriptions
Sitting around a broad table in a nondescript office in Reisterstown last week, more than a dozen mental health advocates, medical professionals and law enforcement officials stared tensely at one another. Nearly a month after the state-created task...
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Suicidal Behavior, Social Sciences, Personal Weapon Control, Health and Safety at School
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