March 15, 2021
Joe Parks, MD, and Ken Minkoff, MD
A new crisis hotline will take effect in 2022, giving us an opportunity to replicate the success 9-1-1 has had on our physical health by providing people the hope of getting help with their mental health, suicidal feelings or crisis due to addiction when they dial 9-8-8.
But that hope only becomes a reality if there are crisis services and then ongoing care available for the 9-8-8 call centers to refer people to. The success of 9-8-8 will depend on the mental health crisis system behind the scenes that we design and implement to help those who call for help.
Committees dealing with mental health and addiction met in both the Illinois House and Senate Friday to discuss a new crisis born from the COVID pandemic.
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Rep. Deb Conroy said the isolation and loss of normalcy caused by the pandemic has exacerbated the prevalence of drug abuse and mental illness, which she says are the same
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