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...Harvard, a top mental health official said that the legislation, if signed into law, could carry dangerous consequences for Virginia universities in forcing them to care for mentally ill students. “Who would be responsible for 24-hour treatment?” Dr. Paul J. Barreira, Harvard’s director of university counseling, academic support and mental health services, said in an interview. Barreira added that keeping a suicidal student on campus was an unfair burden to place on roommates of the mentally ill. He also said that universities would incur enormous costs providing such comprehensive treatment...
...suicidal tendencies among young adults has caused mental health professionals at Harvard to worry that depressed students will be less likely to seek treatment. “The bottom line is, leaving depression untreated causes the chances of an individual committing suicide to increase,” said Paul Barreira, director of behavioral health and academic counseling at University Health Services (UHS). “This study does not suggest these medications should be avoided. It shows there needs to be increased awareness of the risk involved in taking any type of drug.” A Food and Drug...
...panel said yesterday, calling for more stringent warning labels on the medications. Formerly, the FDA had only warned about this risk for those under age 18. The news comes just nine months after the University Health Services’ director of behavioral health and academic counseling, Paul J. Barreira, wrote in a letter to The Crimson that about 7 percent of Harvard students are prescribed antidepressants, and that roughly 50 percent report feeling depressed at some point during their time here. Antidepressants for individuals up to the age of 18 are already marked with a “black...
...percent participation, I‘d being doing cartwheels down Linden Street. Clothed,” Barreira said. “But I’d be doing them...
...survey’s results will provide insight into the state of mental health services across the six colleges and how Harvard compares, Barreira said...