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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: Teaching and Learning, University of Maryland, College Park, Colleges and Universities, Technology, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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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: Automotive Equipment, Behavioral Conditions, Physical Disabilities, Justice System, Shootings
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Substance Abuse, Judges, Justice System, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Beyond 'Maryland's Shame'
Conventional wisdom indicates that a host of mental health issues will be up for discussion during the General Assembly's 2013 legislative session. This is welcome news for the one in five Marylanders living with mental illness who are struggling to...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, First Aid, Public Officials, Symptoms, John F. Kennedy
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Don't equate crime with mental illness
I am grateful to Mark Komrad for his expert commentary related to persuading a troubled loved one or friend into professional mental health treatment and The Sun for publishing it ("Helping them to get help," Dec. 19). I would like to emphasize a point...Tags: Diabetes, Bipolar Disorder, Behavioral Conditions, Depression, Mental Health
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Community-based mental health care providers can't do it alone
Over 140,000 adults and children with mental illness are served by community-based mental health care providers in Maryland. With the right mix and amount of services and supports, the great majority of these individuals recover from their illness and...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health
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Killers are all unhappy young adults
I am a strong advocate of gun control laws, but there is something more than a lack of gun control that is triggering this violence. I see a pattern among most of the mass shootings — all the killers seem to be young and restless! It is high...Tags: Interior Policy, Behavioral Conditions, Gun Control, Barack Obama, Ellicott City
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Kinyua guilty but not criminally responsible in Morgan beating
Months before he allegedly killed a family friend in Harford County, eating his heart and parts of his brain, Alexander Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed reptilian aliens were coming to destroy Earth, a judge said Wednesday....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, Judges, Electronics, Justice System
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Help is available for families struggling to care for a mentally ill loved one
Your editorial urging families and friends of people suffering from mental illness to help them get treatment before a tragedy occurs was spot on, but it's something that often is easier said than done ("Unquiet minds," Dec. 27). Fortunately, there is...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Baltimore County, Symptoms
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O'Malley offers details of agenda
Gov. Martin O'Malley on Friday proposed restricting mental health patients' access to firearms as part of a broad gun-control package and called for expanding early voting to ease long lines on Election Day. The governor, in releasing his full...
Tags: Regional Authority, Psychiatry, Interior Policy, Health Insurance, Behavioral Conditions
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Dearth of mental health treatment options leads to emergencies
Bryan Johnson didn't know he had bipolar disorder until he ended up at the emergency room, where he assaulted a police officer. His family had taken him to the University of Maryland Medical Center because he was acting strangely, staring into the...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Bryan Johnson, Judges, Justice System, Pharmaceuticals
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Mental illness isolates its victims
Last week's tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., has the country asking itself: What has happened to our society? Is it lax gun control laws? Underfunding for treatment of the seriously mentally ill? The breakdown of the nuclear family? Violent video games?...Tags: Interior Policy, Asperger Syndrome, Behavioral Conditions, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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