Behavioral Health News

Attorneys for the state of West Virginia have reached a tentative $161.5 million settlement with drugmakers Teva Pharmaceuticals and AbbVie in a trial over the opioid epidemic, ABC News reported May 25.

The Nogales (Ariz.) Police Department, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, eight Nogales police officers and one county sheriff's deputy were all sued over the death of truck driver Glen Cockrum, CBS affiliate KOLD reported May 25.

Green Bay, Wis.-based N.E.W. Community Clinic's new facility is nearly complete, Fox11 reported May 25.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Odyssey Behavioral Healthcare opened a new Pasadena Villa Outpatient facility in Glen Allen, Va.

Though the U.S. Hispanic population is growing, providers of Spanish-speaking mental health services are diminishing, a study published in Psychiatric Services May 3 found.

Grand Rapids, Mich., leaders unanimously approved a $700,000 co-response team with police and mental health workers for specific emergency calls, local news source MLive reported May 26.

United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an official advisory May 23 stressing the immediate need to combat the health worker burnout crisis in the U.S. 

John Littel, Virginia secretary of health and human resources, told the state General Assembly's Joint Commission on Health Care that mental health facility workers are leaving their positions for those at fast food restaurants such as Chick-fil-A, Virginia Mercury reported…

California's State Assembly passed a bill that allows parents to sue social media platforms for harming children who have become addicted to their platforms for up to $25,000 per violation, ABC News reported May 23.

Jayesh Kamath, MD, PhD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut in Mansfield, said that use of ketamine as a treatment for mental health is "revolutionary for [the field of psychiatry]," CT Insider reported May 22.