The Connecticut Department of Mental Health And Addiction Services has fired an employee for doing work for his personal business on state time. NBC Connecticut Investigates has reported on multiple ...

Connecticut has seen a dramatic decrease in overdose deaths over the last five years. Officials credit the availability of ...

Patricia Rehmer, acting commissioners of the state's mental health-addiction services agency, is the governor's permanent choice for the post. Gov. M. Jodi Rell also announced today her appointment of ...

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) reported their first in-patient COVID-19 death in a psychiatric hospital Thursday. DMHAS reports ...

A new audit questions excessive overtime and other issues at one of our state’s largest psychiatric hospitals. The report comes less than two years after it was revealed that some employees doubled ...

The Whiting Forensic Hospital Advisory Board learned of the 2017 patient abuse scandal at the hospital from a reporter, not the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the board’s chairman ...

Tyler Kimball spoke at a press conference on Thursday about staffing and safety challenges for workers at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Credit: Laura Tillman Health care ...

As a psychiatric nurse for 25 years, I find it appalling that state legislators and the Governor are reducing funds to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS). The work done by ...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he will reappoint the commissioners of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Department of Agriculture for his second term. Patricia A. Rehmer has ...