Despite spending more on psychiatric services and prescribing psychiatric medications at a higher rate than almost any other nation, mental health in the United States over the last two decades has only been getting worse.
The motion to rescind the climate emergency declaration in Durham has been condemned as a very dark day for the authority. The council has shifted its focus to a County Durham care emergency instead.
The three-year strategy will be rolled out this autumn and reflects the voices of nearly 4,000 carers, according to Lucia das Neves, the council's cabinet member for health, social care and wellbeing.