Cherokee Nation has unveiled its first in-house drug treatment center as part of a $100 million investment in mental health through the nation's Public Health and Wellness Fund Act.
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Tamra Williams, PhD, has been selected to lead the department of health and human services for Montgomery County, Pa.
The U.S. spends the most on pharmaceuticals, in both total and per capita, of any country in the world. The prices paid for a given prescription, however, can vary wildly between and even within markets nationwide.
Little Rock, Ark.-based Baptist Health opened a behavioral health treatment center in North Little Rock.
Virtual telepsychiatry provider Talkspace launched a platform to simplify the process of connecting employees to available mental health resources.
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The U.S. may face a shortage of 54,100 to 139,000 physicians by 2033, and access to care in every specialty, including mental health services, is a national issue.
Kansas is the lowest-ranked state for mental healthcare, while Wisconsin is at the top, according to a Mental Health America report.
The department of family medicine at the University of Buffalo (N.Y.) Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has received a federal grant to assist in the training of primary care residents in mental and behavioral healthcare.
The state of California inked a $37 million contract with Next Generation Advanced, a emergency communications management company, to run its Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Crisis Lifeline network.
A bipartisan group of senators sent an open letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Feb. 14, asking the agency to adjust a proposed addiction treatment privacy rule intended to prevent opioids from being prescribed to patients in…