Becker’s Behavioral Health

Anchorage, Alaska, has launched a municipal addiction treatment program that pairs housing with addiction care through a microunit model, Alaska Public Media reported April 7. The program, called Willow Commons, opened in late March and includes 32 individual units for…

Greenville, S.C.-based Crossroads Treatment Centers has partnered with Vaya Health based in Asheville, N.C., to launch a mobile addiction treatment unit in western North Carolina, expanding access to opioid use disorder care.  The initiative is supported by the North Carolina…

The University of Pittsburgh School of Education has established an online graduate certificate in infant mental health.  The program, offered through its Pitt Online portfolio, targets the nationwide shortage of trained infant and early childhood mental health professionals, and is…

Illicit synthetic drugs are proliferating faster than ever, with new compounds reaching users before health agencies can identify or regulate them, according to an April 8 report from The New York Times.  Here are five things to know, per the…

Sacramento, Calif.-based WellSpace Health, a provider of medical, dental, behavioral health and supportive services, and Sacramento County have broken ground on a new community wellness campus in South Sacramento.  The 13-acre campus will include a 24,700-square-foot, 32-bed mental health rehabilitation…

Long-term opioid therapy, defined as prescribed opioid use 90 days or longer, among U.S. patients declined from 5.6 million in 2015 to 4.2 million in 2023 — a 24.3% relative decrease, according to an April 8 research letter published in…

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset Behavioral Health Services in Somerville, N.J., has been designated Somerset County’s provider of psychiatric emergency screening services. The hospital is part of West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health. The designation enables the hospital to provide…