she was found not criminally responsible and she was critted to the department of health -- commitd to the department of mental health and hygiene where she stayed until august of thissier when she was released. here in the shopping center at the target, we told that after she did the stabbing, she ran off toward a home depot and she was followed by police. they surrounded her and when she refused to give up, they used a tazer to get her into custody. we talked with a tazer who saw her before the police arrested her. >> she's never anything. the entire time. she never said anything. the only thing she was doing was like this. going like this and clamming the two looked like machete. >> they were big knives. >> and that is what i will not forget. >> the woman stabbed here is in stable condition at a nearby hospital and chars again, brian, are penning. back to you. >> any word from that department on why this woman was released some. >> ky only tell you this, brian. i went through the court records available on us online. she was found not criminally responsible in 2005 and a judge decided a few months ago that

then, recently, we added a new program- it's a dmh program for the department of mental health for the deaf. people should know that awakenings program is the largest service provider in the u.s. specifically for the deaf and the hard of hearing. and so here at awakenings program all of the staff is able sign an asl very fluent. and at all times everybody is comfortable and able to express their feelings and work on their background and develop a better treatment plan to help them meet their goals. being around deaf culture, being around other deaf helps, yeah. it's more of the ability to communicate quickly. you know if something's wrong or pops up, and they learn to manage it by getting feedback with other peers here, and they learn to get through problems.

then, recently, we added a new program- it's a dmh program for the department of mental health for the deaf. people should know that awakenings program is the largest service provider in the u.s. specifically for the deaf and the hard of hearing. and so here at awakenings program all of the staff is able sign an asl very fluent.

health for individuals with a disability. joining us in our panel today are dr. h. westley clark, director, center of substance abuse treatment, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, maryland. john de miranda, executive director, national association on alcohol, drugs and disability inc. and president and chief executive officer, stepping stone of san diego, san diego, california. dr. barbara l. kornblau, j.d., disabilities attorney and professor, school of health professions and studies, university of michigan-flint, flint, michigan. ed hammett, consumer advocate, marbury, maryland. dr. clark, how many people in the united states have a disability? that number is not exactly clear, but we estimate roughly 53 million people have a disability, and it may be larger because, again, it turns on new classification schema. but at least 53 million. john, how do we define a disability? well, a disability is really kind of a legal and an administrative term. and in some quarters you might be considered disabled, but by another jurisdiction you might not be considered disabled. but i use the term, often, physical sensory, cognitive,

of the whole thing. if you look at the five big departments where it's happening, the corrections department and the department of mental healthpartment had $65 million of overtime last year, and that's on top of a payroll of abt $300 million or so. so that's about 20%. there's an effort right now that's been undertaken by the administration to get this under control. the report you were talking about was the first effort to get a grip on it. what they did, they made a report on all of the state's departments and how much overtime they are getting, person by person, position by position. some of them are getting 189% of overtime. that's above their regular pay. what they want to do is make the commissioners of the agencies where this is happening accountable for it and try to get them to redistribute the overtime because it has a short term effect of just a lot of extra money that you could save by hiring more full time people. but other thing people spike their overtime in the years on which their pensions are calculated. if they get jobs like the prisons or state police, nurses, you get to work for 20 years and retire at wha

department of corrections. among the criticisms, not enough mental health workers on the job and that's affecting the quality of care. department officials say they are vigorously trying to recruit workers but are having a difficult time to work with mentally ill inmates like these. >>> they've done the time, so why are these prisoners still locked up? >>> with most crimes, when a prisoner does their time they are released back into the public. but that's not the case with some sexual offenders. it keeps them locked up for what they might do rather than what they've done. >> reporter: allen is a 52-year- old former teacher and coach who admits to sexually abusing 25 children mostly boys ages 9 to 17. >> i was definitely a child molester. absolutely. >> reporter: the state of california thinks allen is still a child molester and a danger to society so even though he finished his prison term seven years ago allen is still lacked up at the atascadero state mental hospital along with 562 other child molesters and rapists. all of them are being held on what's being called civil commitment. states often use civil com

resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend a grant from department of health and human services, substance abuse and mental health services, and center for mental health services in the amount of $473,485 to fund the primary and behavioral health care integration for the period september 1, 2011, through august 31, 2012. supervisor chu: thank you. we have tony from the department of public health, i believe. >> good morning, chair person, supervisors. good morning on this beautiful day. i am here today to come before you with approval to accept and expand the grant for community behavior health services with integration of primary care and behavioral health. this is an exciting opportunity for us. we are fortunate to have this opportunity, given the national picture where health care is headed. we submitted this claim in 2009. we receive the actual spores, which were very high, but it was a very competitive picture at that time. we receive notification during the summer that with that the application, we could move forward with funding health care as proposed in the grant application. this project was very

. >> josh sharpstein, department of health and mental hygiene, calls the incidence unacceptable. >> perkins has taken steps to improve safety, but more needs to be done. >> perkins is a maximum security in-patient hospital. it is operated by the department of health and mental hygiene. it serves patients with serious psychiatric disorders who face serious criminal charges including homicide, assault, first degree sexual offenses, and robbery with a deadly weapon. according to state health officials, the hospital added additional staff and updated the security system after a previous killing there back in 2010. now with two more murders in the in the past week, officials have added more staff to the maximum and medium-security units, and they are conducting reassessments of every patient in the hospital. >> to assess how they are coping with this extraordinary situation and to double check on their levels of care to ensure that they are receiving the appropriate services. >> it is for patients who have the potential for violence, it is critical that there be an accurate assessment. >> kai re

of the environment. more needs to be done. >> perkins is a maximum security in-patient hospital. it is operated by the department of health and mental hygiene. the charges -- patients were ordered to perkins by the court. they are in for various assaults and armed robberies. with two more murders in the past week, officials have added more staff to the maximum and medium security units. they are conducting clinical reassessments of every patient in the hospital. >> to assess how they are coping with this extraordinary situation and to double check on their levels of care and to ensure that they are receiving the appropriate services. >> with patients that have the potential for violence, it is critical that there be an accurate assessment. >> kai reed, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the victim from thursday night's killing has been identified as 40-year-old rogelio mondragon. andre mayo is charged with his murder. >> we're hearing from a victim of a violent home invasion at the hands of a harford county teenager, allegedly. authorities say he entered the home through a dog door. they say he opened fire on the husband and then fired on the wife

of the environment. more needs to be done. >> it is operated by the department of health and mental hygiene. it serves patients with serious psychiatric disorders to face criminal charges including homicide, assault, offenses and that robbery with a deadly weapon. most of the 240 patients were ordered to perkins by a court. according to state officials, the hospital added additional staff and upgraded the security system after a previous killing in 2010. now with two more murders in the past week, they have added even more staff to the units and are conducting criminal reassessments of every patient in the hospital. >> just to assess how they are coping with the extraordinary situation. to double check their levels of care to make sure that they are receiving the appropriate services. >> the have the potential for violence. it is critical that there be an accurate assessment. >> the victim from thursday night's killing was a 40-year- old. defense attorneys who are trying to convince a jury to spare a convicted hit man's life. -- ar bishop to's lawyers psychiatric said he felt shame for murde

of us. the state department of health and mental hygiene want some of them added to the controlled substance list. they are working with a guide to synthetic drugs, what to look out for. it's all on our web site. you can find a link to our special section by looking in the spotlight area half-way down the page. >>> tomorrow we're gonna find out how big a raise the folks on social security are going to get. beginning in january social security checks will include a cost of living adjustment. it is expected to be between 3.5 and 3.7%. the exact amount will come out tomorrow when the government releases information on inflation. inflation has been low for 2 years now so payments haven't gone up since 2009. it's possible some people won't see the full amount of the cost of living increase because medicare premiums are going up. which cuts the amounts of money some seniors are getting from the government. >>> the state's new election map moves to the house tomorrow. today the state senate approved a plan that carves out maryland's new legislative districts. all 12 of the senate republicans voted

they, the department of health and mental hygiene passed emergency regulations banning the sale of bath salt. the ban stakes effect immediately. >>> different race to stop smugglers, it's a growing problem that's costing millions of dollars. the federal crack down under right. >> the u.s. justice department estimates the state loses about $5 billion a year to cigarette smuggling. >> reporter: this is surveillance video of atf agent patrolling maryland virginia border, the new smuggling ground for -- they're loading up then they illegally sell the smokes in high tax states like m m.d. >> and the amount of money is phenomenal. it's tens of thousands of dollars in any particular run that somebody may rate. >> reporter: maryland charges $2 a pack, new jersey is 270 and new york has the highest rate. maryland peter tackling the problem head on. >> be careful because our officers are blanketing the borders. >> reporter: georgia's county already busted 9 people last month for cigarette smuggling. they're hurting people who sale cigarettes. >> we're protecting businesses who are paying taxes an

harding, director, center for substance abuse prevention, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services, rockville, md; jane callahan, director, national community anti-drug coalition institute, community anti-drug coalitions of america, alexandria, va; jordan burnham, mental health advocate, active minds inc., washington, dc; dr. wendy greene, assistant director of trauma and critical care and program developer, screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment program, howard university hospital, washington, dc. fran, what is the definition of behavioral health, and how do we distinguish between prevention, early intervention, and treatment within that definition? the definition for behavioral health for samhsa is we are taking the substance abuse and mental health prevention, intervention, and treatment programs, and we are encasing it within the disorder realm. so substance abuse, prevention, intervention, and treatment are exactly the same, same levels, and so is mental health. we are finding that mental health properties for prevention, especially,

the state department of health and mental hygiene announce to the regulation today. it mimics the height of cocaine. among the side effects are cardio up -- cardiac disturbances, paranoia, and psychosis. during our investigation, the i team spoke with the state police job -- drug agency says banning the substance is a step in the right direction. he adds that making them illegal does not mean the drug will go away. >> the drug laws are written to ban a specific drugs based on their chemical structure. what happens is the chemist will go and and it tweet the chemical structure so that it does not fit the definition. there got -- therefore, it is legal. >> he says the key is to write legislation brought enough so that they cannot working around it. wbaltv.com, be sure to comiteam. >> new guidelines offer parents new ways of reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome or sid. this is just to get your infant vaccinated. breast-feeding is strongly encouraged. as is using a pacifier during that time. getting rid of all types of crib a bumper pad sprayed the city most

of the organization to which you have been depriving direct services to homeless? >> with the committee on shelter monitoring. i work with mental health, under cultural competence, the department of health. commissioner elsbernd: one other question, your resume has an address that you live in oakland. or a petition says you live in san francisco. -- application says you live in san francisco. >> commissioner elsbernd: just need to know if we need to do a residency waiver for you. seat 4, you need to be nominated by a community agency. do you know who nominated you? >> yes, bernice. commissioner elsbernd: great, thank you. >> thank you so much. commissioner elsbernd: kathy treggiari is not here. linda pettye is not here. mr. pitts. >> seat no. 1 has been vacant maybe a year and a half. although he might not necessarily have the proper credentials, it would be good if that seat was filled. the thing about it is, like i mentioned before, i did have five letters from different organizations regarding my work, regarding homelessness, homeless issues. some people say i have been combative. i am definitely an impassioned. we should have services that work for the citizens that we are

larry finch with the maryland department of health and mental hygiene said the staff at clifton perkins the new charge says against starks. finch says she was doing well. >>> new tonight a disturb discovery in the northern virginia middle school. someone found a stash of weapons and tonight the fbi wants to know who they belong to and why they were there. fox 5 roz plater joins us with more. >> you can imagine just how shocked those construction workers were who actually found all this. the call originally came in as a machine gun buried in the ground and tonight investigators are scrambling to figure this thing out. >> reporter: it was in this wooded area just off i-56 at patrick henry drive that construction crews made a startling discovery early wednesday morning and called for help. >> next thing we knew was there was 12 arlington county police cars, arlington county bomb squad and more wagons which i figured was either fbi or the secret service. >> reporter: turns out, it was the fbi and that agency confirms what the workers found was a gun, two weapons parts and some pvc pipes. in

health officials. the head of maryland's department of health and mental hygiene said it is time to ban bumpers to savecation. >> the compos family welcomed their beab baby three months ago. he -- when his mother designed the nursery, the first thing she picked out was the bedding. the set came complete with a blanket and a padded crib bumper. >> we weren't worried because he wasn't rolling over. >> once james now 2 became mobile, his parents worried his face may get pressed against the bumper. >> we took it out. >> they did the right thing according to health officials. the maryland department of health and hygiene is proposing a ban on crib bumpers. >> you don't need the bumper on top of the child, you just need it up close. it restricts the air flow, and that's enough. >> this mesh barrier fits inside the crip. >> we still wanted bumpers because we were afraid the baby's arms would come through the slots. >> i did a test. you can breathe through it. i felt confident that the baby could breathe through it. >> the proposed ban doesn't distinguish between mesh and traditional bumpers. health officials

of the largest maximum security juvenile prisons in the country, pendleton are responsible for educating and rehabilitating teenage gang members, sex offenders, and juveniles with mental health issues for the indiana department of corrections. >> in our jurisdiction, in our state, the department of corrections became a solution to a very aggressive, difficult child to handle. truly those kids that are seen as public threats. >> i spent from age 10 to 12 in state hospitals for mental problems. i got locked up at age 13. from there, i messed up by getting in a fight at school while i was at placement. it got me terminated from there. threatened my case worker. they kicked me out for that, and now i'm here. been here for the past three years. >> the number one issue offenders approach me on on a daily basis has to do with placements. it could be to do with their history and behavior, they have been in community placements before and kicked out. it's frustrating from my perspective. >> they can't find a placement for you? >> my mental history from the past, no placement will accept me now. >> finding placements for offenders isn't the only challenge staff members face. director mia black has to deal with a diffe

yesterday the department of health and mental hygiene passed a regulation banning the sale of the bathd's news station, up next, make your holiday travel plans sooner rather than later 1Ñ1Ñ1Ñ1Ñ1Ñ1Ñ7Ñ7Ñ;Ñ?Ñ?Ñ?Ñ???;?w;w ♪ >>> we are back on "the early show." it is 8:30 on a rainy wednesday in new york. >>> coming up a simple message if you're planning on traveling this thanksgiving or christmas, book that flight now! air fare going up by the day and fewer seats out there to buy. our travel expert peter greenberg will be here with advice on snagging the best deals. >>> also ahead this half hour, look. we like a little bit of news. >> we like the news. >> sometimes it's referred to as gossip. from magazines to newspapers to tv, gossip has become a multibillion dollar business. there is a knew book, though, that says women and men like gossip for different reasons. you probably could have guessed that but would you guess it's because the way human beings evolve? we will test that theory out in a few minutes. >>> would you believe that one-third of all 3-year-olds in america have a tv in the

department of health and human services. cam was originally started back in the '90s to address the alcohol and drug treatment needs and mentalhealth needs of people specifically with disabilities. cam stands for the consumer advocacy model, and it was established with the idea of the individual is the expert on what their needs are. so it's a team model. nothing here is decided based on any one philosophy or any one strict practice. we look at what is holistic. it's a strength-based approach of using the individual's own strengths and applying them to the clinical model. the benefits of using technology-assisted care for people who have disabilities and/or for people who have co-occurring disabilities, or sud disorders, are that it provides an arena of access for folks who might not normally be able to get to a treatment facility or might not be able to be served in a traditional setting. ecam is taking all the services that someone would get in a traditional model-counseling, group counseling, and case management- and putting them in a computer world, a video conference world. and technology-assisted care is taking any of t

gambling act, introduced for the fourth time in the house designating the substance abuse of mental health departmento address the public health concerns of this issue. i thank representatives barton, piths, whit feed, campbell, frank, and others who are current formers of the legislation, and a as was said, we appreciate the broad sponsorship on our bill as well with you and representative frank. in closing, millions of americans are experiencing gambling problems today like my friend mike. he gambled away more than $250,000 over the internet losing his job, house, and his family. he sat in the grocery store parking lot here in virginia and contemplated suicide. he was able to get treatment, and now he works for hope that's available for families. treatment works. it is an investment that pays for itself many times over. those who legalize, regulation, promote, and profit from gambling have an *e9 call and economic imperative to minimize the social costs of gambling addiction. thank you for the opportunity to testify. >> thank you. mr. eggert you are recognized. >> thank you, madam chairwoman, ranki

department representatives, actually, several years ago to estimate the cost of false alarm. between the different agencies in the hours spent in response, not to mention the mental health and communication issues, it would cost the city over $700,000 per incident if we had a false, for example, anthrax alarm. and that is not including state or federal agencies. there is sort of a list here of the cost and fees of the potential response activities. we have emergency center evacuation's enclosure facilities until further notice, trafficking, crowd control issues to a criminal investigation. potentially decontamination of people or an entire building, which means hosing been down and having to remove their clothing. during sampling in surveillance of clinics and emergency rooms. and potentially giving out antibiotics to mass numbers of people. and again, risk communication issues. the ordinance summary has already been addressed by mr. chiu. we went through this with the fire department and many other emergency responders agencies. they're all in support of this, as well. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you very much. >> sure. supervisor mirkarimi: by the way, what would the mess, detector loo

of how many detainees we saw. >> hinojosa: twana cooks-allen was the mental health coordinator at willacy. >> we would make referrals to our department to see them. >> hinojosa: she heard a lot of stories of abuse. >> men of color were coming to me, talking about guards taking them in an area and beating them, talking to me about guards who are running them down like they were animals, and yelling and screaming and calling them names and talking about family members, and getting in their face and spitting. >> this is the first place where i ever went to that it was all right for somebody to say, "you nigger monkey," "black nigger monkey," you know? >> hinojosa: a guard to say that to you. >> yeah. and say it in front of a lot of other people, too. so you would start to think that, i guess that's all right down here for them to do that. >> hinojosa: while you were detained at willacy, did you witness any physical abuse by the guards on the detainees? >> there was a lot of nights i hear screaming in the hallway, "ah, ah," and hear "toop, toop," that were, like, sticks and stuff. and then, i would run to the door and look, and you would

and a department of defense study found one third of them had asked for help before taking their life. volunteer programs aim to fill in the gaps of government programs. >> over 6000 mental healthrofessionals throughout the country are now stepping up. >> i spent three years using drugs, hurting myself, wanting to end my life and it didn't have to be that way. >> reporter: now the married mother of a young taur, jennifer crane is a spokesperson sharing her story to give hope there is life after war. sandra hughes cbs news, los angeles. >> they also offer free services to the family of veterans. >>> derek, coming up on 9news now remember the hawkin dove, it closed its doors after 44 years just for a remodel though on sunday. still ahead we will tell you how you can buy a piece of that history. >>> we will tell you why you need to watch what you post on facebook. that's coming up. >>> but next, new advice from a federal panel that men can skip those psa tests for prostate cancer. the controversy and what a local expert has to say. we will be right back. auto >>> tonight's health alert is all about men. doctors have been debating for years the screening for prostate cancer. now a

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