"Mental health and substance use disorders are major contributors to premature mortality in the United States, including deaths from suicide, drug overdoses, accidents and liver cirrhosis," said lead ...
Understanding what the US spends to treat mental health and substance use disorders (SUD) is important for understanding spending patterns and informing health policy. In this study, we determined ...
A mental health expert, Ezera Emetu, has warned that Nigeria’s continued criminalization of attempted suicide is undermining ...
Thirty portraits are on display at Hotel Downstreet, part of an initiative to use the arts and storytelling to humanize substance ...
By Sriparna Roy March 16 (Reuters) - Cannabis-based medicines have shown little evidence of effectiveness for treating most ...
Harm reduction workers who bring lived experience to harm reduction programs may themselves need support for a substance use ...
He was 17 years old, a serious football injury put him under the knife for surgery and sent him home with a 60-pill script for oxycodone to manage pain. Three ...
There was some evidence that cannabinoids can reduce symptoms of cannabis use disorder, insomnia, tic or Tourette's syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder, but the quality of this evidence was ...
Providing treatment with cultural understanding can encourage people to seek help who might otherwise feel isolated or misunderstood in traditional settings.
The Gulf States Newsroom traveled across Mississippi and collected 219 written responses from people with lived experience of addiction.
Santa Barbara County Behavioral Wellness has opened a new service center in Lompoc that brings several adult behavioral health programs together under one ...