California Legislative Updates
New York Times article
The New York Times (NYT) just published publish an article quoting CSAP's Governmental Affairs Committee Chairwoman, Dr. Emily Wood. The article explores how recent opioid-related legal settlements have had unfortunate and unintended consequences. CSAP's state advocates at SYASL and several other members of CSAP worked with the NYT reporters on this piece. You may [...]
Prescribing
Attorney General's Office Also this week, several members of the CSAP Government Affairs Committee and SYASL advocate Paul Yoder met with basically all of the top brass in the State Attorney General's Office to discuss current prescribing issues. It was an hourlong exchange of data and perspectives with both groups [...]
Eggman Press Conference, CSAP Shines
This week, CSAP joined Senators Eggman and Wiener, the Big City Mayors Coalition, NAMI California, and others to announce the introduction of legislation to overhaul the State’s behavioral health care system. CSAP Governmental Affairs Committee Chair, Dr. Emily Wood did an amazing job when it was her turn to speak [...]
CSAP’s Work With CMA
The California Medical Association recently decided that CSAP will be the sole voice for psychiatry in California within the House of Medicine. CSAP is very proud of this recognition. We continue this issue by highlighting the three CSAP current and soon-to-be representative to the CMA in various capacities. Dr. Jessica [...]
Prescribing Issues
From CSAP's Government Affairs Committee Chairwoman Emily Wood: CSAP remains committed to: Protecting the treatment decisions that are made in collaboration between a patient and their psychiatrist Supporting legislation and regulations that emphasize substance misuse prevention and treatment Parity of mental health and substance use care with other types of [...]
Will This Death Force Change?
"BRITNEY SPEARS CAN BE CONSERVED, AND MARK RIPPEE CANNOT?" The memorial of Mark Rippee, a blind, mentally ill homeless man, was held last week in Solano County. Mark died homeless in his hometown on November 29. It was noted by a Sacramento Bee reporter that Senator Eggman was the one state official [...]