Mental Health

The Evolution of US Policy Responses to the Opioid Epidemic

1 March 2020

The ‘opioid epidemic’ in the US is the most recent drug-abuse challenge from the misuse of prescription medicines or the use of illicit drugs. It is…

Dementia: The R&D Landscape

1 November 2015

This OHE Research Paper provides an overview of the current dementia R&D landscape. The research was undertaken by OHE for Imperial College and the UK Department of Health.

Medical Research: What’s It Worth?

1 November 2008

Understanding the nature, extent and processes involved in the return on investment in medical research has been largely neglected as an area of serious scientific study.…

Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health: Understanding the Lifetime Impacts

1 January 2005

I suspect most of us who have had anything to do with the issues surrounding young people’s mental health believe that resolving issues in early life…

Mental Health Economics and Policy in a Global Context

1 December 2003

The purpose of the conference was to locate and promote the role of health economics in mental health policy in low and middle income countries. Health…

Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

1 March 1994

This report is concerned with people who persistently starve themselves (anorexia nervosa), as well as those who follow chaotic eating patterns (bulimia nervosa). Both conditions are…

Dementia

1 September 1992

Dementia is a condition whose causes are poorly understood, which cannot be cured and for which current treatments of symptoms have at best marginal effects. Dementia…

Drug misuse

1 April 1992

Throughout history the desire to experience an altered state of consciousness can be seen to have been part of the essential nature of man. In all…

Depression

1 March 1992

Depression has been defined as the persistent and sustained feeling that the self is worthless, the world meaningless and the future hopeless. There is a world…