Author: Mariah Taylor

Nearly 10% of adults diagnosed with substance use disorder were hospitalized in the past year, but most did not receive any form of medication treatment while in the hospital, a recent study found. Published April 1 in Annals of Internal…

California is the state where psychiatrists are paid the most, and California and Nevada are the states where psychologists are paid the most, according to Bureau of Labor statistics data.  The data was released April 18 and is up to…

New Mexico has the highest rate of drug use while Idaho has the lowest, according to a WalletHub report published April 30. WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 20 metrics in three categories: drug use…

Four cities tied for the highest suicide rate in the U.S. and two cities in New Jersey had the lowest suicide rates, according to financial website WalletHub.  The data is part of WalletHub’s research in ranking the “Happiest Cities in…

Idaho has the highest number of people per psychiatrist at 13,709, while the District of Columbia has the lowest at 1,442, according to industry data collected by the Kaiser Family Foundation and population figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. Becker’s…

Behavioral health needs are rising, and systems are getting creative in how they remove barriers to care. “One of the biggest challenges in U.S. mental health care is that we don’t really have a unified mental health system,” Katharine Dalke,…

Salem-based Oregon State Hospital has been placed in immediate jeopardy after another patient’s death, OregonLive reported April 2. On March 18, a patient in seclusion fell and became unconscious, later dying. Investigators from both CMS and The Joint Commission filed…

Lawrence, Ind.-based Options Behavioral Health System is facing 10 lawsuits from former patients and their families alleging the facility held them against their will. In addition, the system has been cited by state and federal authorities over patient care, WRTV…

Penn Medicine’s Lancaster (Pa.) General Hospital opened a crisis walk-in center that provides immediate behavioral health assessments and treatments. The behavioral health center expects to serve 900 patients annually for interventional psychiatry and 10,000 patients through the walk-in center, both…

Eighty-two percent of psychiatrists said they believe happiness and balance is attainable in the profession, but the number of providers who said they are experiencing happiness is falling short, according to a March 7 Medscape report. The report surveyed 5,741…