Mental Health & Addiction

Stories focusing on substance use disorder treatment and behavioral and mental health care.

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Understanding the motivation to delay medical treatment can help bridge a gap in care for injection-related infections.

Mental Health & Addiction

Why Do People Who Inject Drugs Delay Treatment for Infections?

January 2, 2020 | Lauren Padilla

Better HCV testing is needed for at-risk youth.

Mental Health & Addiction

Study: Improvements Needed for Hepatitis C Testing in Youth

December 19, 2019 | Jazmin Holdway

Entrance to an emergency room, where many people turn for their behavioral health needs.

Mental Health & Addiction

Emergency Mental Health Services: A Growing Need

November 20, 2019 | Lauren Padilla

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Mental Health & Addiction

For Hospitals, A Blueprint for Fighting the Opioid Epidemic

November 19, 2019 | Michael Botticelli, Donald M. Berwick, Maia Gottlieb, Mara Lederman

The bidirectional relationship between addiction and infectious disease means physicians need more expertise in both.

Mental Health & Addiction

Infectious Disease Physicians Need a New Subspecialty: Addiction

November 11, 2019 | Kerry Benson

Clean syringes are passed between hands as part of low-barrier harm reduction services

Mental Health & Addiction

Low-Barrier Treatment for SUD Key for Engagement and Retention

October 30, 2019 | Catherine Murphy

Social work's role in health equity

Mental Health & Addiction

Health Equity, Social Determinants, and the Role of Social Work

October 28, 2019 | Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD

Bottle of buprenorphine pills, an FDA-approved medication for the treatment of opioid use disorder

Mental Health & Addiction

Even After Overdose, Only 1 in 3 Young Adults Receive OUD Meds

October 3, 2019 | Jenny Eriksen Leary

Close up of a baggie of meth, a drug with rates on the rise in the opioid crisis

Mental Health & Addiction

‘Meth Is Here and Now’: A Growing Presence in the Opioid Crisis

September 27, 2019 | Catherine Murphy

New research identifies high-risk touchpoints that offer opportunity to provide harm reduction services to those most at risk of opioid overdose

Mental Health & Addiction

We Need to Think Bigger Than Opioid Stewardship

September 18, 2019 | Marc LaRochelle, MD, MPH

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Mental Health & Addiction

New Remote Dispensing Naloxone Policy Will Increase Access

September 9, 2019 | Kerry Benson

Mental Health & Addiction

Journalist Maia Szalavitz on Addiction as a Learning Disorder

September 9, 2019 | Ray Hainer

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