Author: Staff

There are 38,401 active psychiatrists in the country, according to the Association of American Medical College's "2022 Physician Specialty Data Report."

Tempe, Ariz.-based mental health treatment provider Reverie Mind debuted its program providing immediate care to patients in need of suboxone therapy for opioid use disorder. 

Nonprofit organization Breakthrough Discoveries for Thriving with Bipolar Disorder was awarded $15 million in grants to further bipolar disorder genetics research. 

Multnomah County's Behavioral Health Resource Center in Portland, Ore., unexpectedly closed March 30 for more than two weeks, according to an April 2 report from The Oregonian.

Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Children's Hospital has teamed up with Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital, also in Charlottesville, to expand pediatric behavioral healthcare and neurodevelopmental care with a new outpatient clinic. 

Opioid use disorder patients on Medicare had fewer fatal overdoses after moving to telehealth services, according to a study published March 29 in JAMA Psychiatry.

Behavioral health is undergoing a broad awakening, with both leaders and the public increasingly seeing it as vital. The industry may fail to capture the full momentum of those tailwinds, however, if certain obstacles are not addressed.

Bernard Shelton, 66, formerly a physician in St. Clair Shores, Mich., was convicted of a patient's overdose death and on 21 drug distribution charges , the Justice Department said March 31.

Former Baton Rouge, La., physician Randy Lamartiniere, 64, will serve 15 years in prison and three years of supervised release for a drug distribution conviction, the Justice Department said April 4.

Chelsea (Mich.) Hospital is closing its adult inpatient behavioral health unit at the end of 2023, WEMU reported April 5.