Today's Mental Health News Pick Up
From New Zealand
Housing affordability should be improved for everybody including mental health system users, who are under unavoidable financial difficulties.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0706/S00067.htm
Housing affordability and mental health
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 9:55 am (Scoop)
Press Release: Mental Health Commission
Housing affordability – yet another challenge for mental health system users
The Mental Health Commission says people with mental illness and/or addictions are at growing risk as housing affordability issues cause greater hardship...
I'm having milk every day, but I've never heard of the A2 protein until today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=206&objectid=10446483
A2 milk seen as key to the nation's dairy future
5:00AM Tuesday June 19, 2007(New Zealand Herald)
By Malcolm Burgess
...The beta-casomorphin-7 fragment was an opoid(opioid?) linked to mental health conditions and some forms of autism, he said...
From the World
http://www.mankatofreepress.com/local/local_story_169222412.html
ISJ to reopen mental health unit
Target number is 15 beds
Published June 18, 2007 10:24 pm By Robb Murray (The Free Press)
MANKATO —
Four months after closing its inpatient behavioral health unit, Immanuel St. Joseph’s Hospital announced Monday it has devised a new model of mental health care and will reopen the unit...