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In face of the ongoing mental health crisis among students, school districts and counties across the country have filed lawsuits against social media companies for their negative effects on youth, The Washington Post reported March 19. 

The addiction treatment market is expected to grow by a 6.7 percent compound annual growth rate and reach a $50 million potential by 2032, according to a Fact.MR study.

Gov. Spencer Cox has signed four bills related to mental health into law, State of Reform reported March 17.

Stefanie King, owner of Athens, Pa.-based Center for Holistic Integrative Mental Health, has pleaded guilty to prescribing medications without a supervising physician and false billing, The Daily Review reported March 18. 

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Dalal Akoury, MD, and a set of companies she controls that operate as AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, for allegedly making false claims about the treatment of addiction, cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease…

Montana, South Dakota and Idaho are the three best places for physicians to practice in the U.S. in 2023, according to a March 20 WalletHub ranking. The three worst are Hawaii, Rhode Island and Alaska. 

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health and Lifepoint Behavioral Health, part of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, named Roy Sasenaraine CEO for a new 150-bed joint venture behavioral health hospital.

Care management platform MedArrive has partnered with maternity telehealth services company Ouma Health to provide maternal-fetal care to vulnerable women on Medicaid.

House Bill 2455 would place restrictions on how insurers and coordinated care organizations can audit mental health providers in Oregon, the Lund Report reported March 16. 

Honolulu-based Kline Welsh Behavioral Health Foundation, which operates Sand Island Treatment Center, has been ordered to pay $451,898 in back wages to 34 staff members.