Medscape January 30, 2025
Rollout of the 988 suicide and crisis hotline in the United States has not led to significant and equitable growth in the availability of most mental health crisis services, except for a small increase in peer support services, a new study showed.
Emergency psychiatric walk-in services, mobile crisis response, and suicide-prevention services all declined in the years since the new hotline was launched, investigators found.
“The lack of meaningful growth in most crisis services may limit the long-run success of 988, in particular, if callers feel that reaching out to 988 fails to result in access to appropriate sources of care,” lead author Jonathan Cantor, PhD, a policy researcher at RAND, Santa Monica, California, said in a statement.
“Mental...
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