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California is investing more than $21 million through 112 community organizations to prevent opioid and stimulant use, reduce overdose risk and connect residents to treatment, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Oct. 30. The funding flows through the Sacramento-based Department of Health…
Health plans want the next federal mental health parity rule to do something regulators haven’t yet: show them what compliance looks like. The 2021 law called for illustrative examples of good compliance, and plans are still waiting for them, according…
A patient in a behavioral health crisis is stabilized in the emergency department and sent home with a list of phone numbers. Whether they reach anyone, and whether the health system ever finds out, is an open question. A stronger…
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Nearly five months after California’s psychiatric nurse staffing ratios took effect, the state’s Medicaid agency is weighing a plan to send money that providers have sought to help absorb the mandate’s costs to programs further downstream. One psychiatric hospital CEO…
Calls to the Washington Poison Center involving kratom and one of its active compounds, 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, rose 433% over the past three years, with the sharpest increase in 2026, CBS affiliate KIRO 7 News reported Oct. 29. The center…
The share of U.S. children and adolescents ages 5-17 who have ever received an attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnosis rose from 9.9% in 2019 to 13.8% in 2025, according to CDC data published Oct. 29. The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics…
Healthcare security teams already collect signals from across their systems. The challenge is connecting thousands of alerts quickly enough to act. That urgency is growing. The average healthcare data breach costs $7.42 million, according to IBM, while attackers are using…
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California has the most professionally active psychiatrists while Wyoming has the fewest, according to KFF data as of September 2026. KFF tallied active MDs and DOs in each state and the District of Columbia using a special data request of…
Tulsa, Okla.-based OSU Medicine launched OSU Maternal and Addiction Recovery Care, a program that offers prenatal care, addiction treatment and mental health counseling in one location to pregnant and postpartum patients with substance use disorders. The program held a ribbon-cutting…
The number of U.S. specialty behavioral health hospitals rose to 667 in 2024, an increase of 22 since 2020, according to the American Hospital Association’s 2026 Fast Facts: Behavioral Health infographic. Specialty behavioral health hospitals made up 11% of all…
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