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Milwaukee County is making a new push to improve mental health services. Here are the next steps.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn Milwaukee County's latest round of efforts to improve mental health care accessibility for...
Milwaukee's Housing First programs shows how lifting people out of homelessness can improve health,...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoElijah Edwards begins each day reading Scripture from a Bible as worn from use as his leathered...
6 key takeaways from County Executive David Crowley's State of the County address
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn his first in-person State of the County address, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley painted...
A new study says Eviction Free MKE is underutilized but benefits people. Here are some of the...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Eviction Free MKE program, an online tool that connects tenants facing eviction to legal...
Can you overdose from skin contact with fentanyl? Unlikely, here's why
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn Milwaukee County, overdose drug deaths doubled from 2010 to 2020. While drug overdose deaths...
Lessard at 50: Can Milwaukee break its addiction to forced psychiatric care?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn November 1971, when West Allis schoolteacher Alberta Lessard found herself facing a lifelong...
Drug overdose deaths in Milwaukee have doubled in the past decade. Here's how you can respond.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOverdoses drug deaths doubled in Milwaukee County from 2010 to 2020. Public health experts say more...
What if doctors could write prescriptions for adequate housing? More than anything else, it might...
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMILWAUKEE — In his first five months enrolled in Children’s Community Health Plan, Patrick Sweat...
New West Allis program will allow first responders to initiate long-term opioid treatment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoRecovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment...
17 suspected overdose deaths since Saturday prompts officials to warn of possible 'bad batch' of...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPublic health and emergency service officials are warning the public about a recent wave of overdose...