Mental Health

Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic that is effective for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. In this article, Amber Young and Emma Smith explain the roles of the pharmacist in supporting patients taking clozapine

The Green Party and National want a new minister in charge of mental health, ACT wants a new mental health and addiction agency, and Labour wants to train 12 more psychiatrists a year

Young people are steeped in a digital environment that is a major contributor to their poor mental wellbeing, says Professor Sir Peter Gluckman

The Needle Exchange Services Trust has lost funding from Te Whatu Ora and will be eventually wound up.

Nearly one in eight young people between the age of 12 and 25 years of age has been dispensed a psychotropic drug in the last 12 months according to new data released by He Ako Hiringa

The burnout crisis among pharmacists and other health workers doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. Paulette Crowley spoke to mental-health lecturer Fiona Moir about dealing with stress

Te Whatu Ora has recovered more than $680,000 from pharmacies that claimed inappropriately for the schizophrenia injection paliperidone and says this may not be the only drug incorrectly dispensed and claimed for

Te Whatu Ora has recovered more than $680,000 from pharmacies that claimed inappropriately for the schizophrenia injection paliperidone and says this may not be the only drug incorrectly dispensed and claimed for

When Napier resident Craig Colhoun saw his children building Lego houses with towers to keep safe from the rain after Cyclone Gabrielle hit, he recognised their play as a mechanism to process trauma.

WHEN NAPIER resident Craig Colhoun saw his children building Lego houses with towers to keep safe from the rain after Cyclone Gabrielle hit, he recognised their play as a mechanism to process trauma.