The synthetic opioid cychlorphine has been linked to at least 55 deaths nationally from 2025 to 2026, with prevalence highest in Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, MedPage Today reported Sept. 8. The Office of National Drug Control Policy said in an…
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HHS awarded $383.4 million in grants to strengthen behavioral health treatment, prevention and crisis response across the country. Of the funding, $252 million will support the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, suicide prevention and mobile crisis services, according to a…
Santa Fe, N.M.-based Quel Health launched a telehealth platform focused on using GLP-1 receptor agonists in addiction care. The platform is available in 41 states and the District of Columbia, with national coverage planned by year-end, according to a Sept. 8 news…
Atlanta-based Marcus Autism Center, a subsidiary of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Emory University School of Medicine were awarded up to $17.25 million from Aligning Research to Impact Autism. The funding will allow the providers to join the Innovative Medicine…
Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health opened an electroconvulsive therapy clinic for patients with serious psychiatric illnesses. The clinic, located on UC Davis Health’s Sacramento campus, provides electroconvulsive therapy for conditions including treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and catatonia, according to…
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Federal lawmakers have introduced or revived several bills this year aimed at expanding access to addiction and mental health treatment, from new Medicare coverage for residential opioid treatment to permanent funding for community behavioral health clinics. Here are eight to…
Florida had the most facilities flagged worse than the national psychiatric readmission rate, with 19 — nearly two and a half times California’s total, the next-highest state, according to data from CMS. The agency’s Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting Program,…
The FDA has taken a string of actions in recent months that could reshape how substance use disorders, ADHD and other behavioral health conditions are treated in the years ahead. From clearing a novel alcohol use disorder drug for trials…
Osawatomie (Kan.) State Hospital is at the center of patient safety concerns over a proposed $1 billion, 283-acre data center that would sit a few hundred yards from the psychiatric facility, KSHB 41 reported Sept. 6. Clayton Sherlock, who spent…
U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced the bipartisan 988 Crisis Response Act Sept. 3 to fund professional mobile crisis response teams dispatched by 988 Lifeline operators as well as establish Medicaid reimbursement for crisis call centers and resources. The legislation…