In Wyoming, the state with the highest suicide rate per capita, experts are pushing for safer storage of firearms as part of prevention, NPR reported Jan. 23.
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James Lehane has retired from his role as president and CEO of Middletown, R.I.-based Newport Mental Health, The Newport Daily News reported Jan. 25.
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson will pay Washington state $149.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the manufacturer's role in the opioid epidemic across the state.
HHS is providing $50 million in funding to states to provide school-based medical services.
Psychiatry lands close to the bottom of the specialties ranked by burnout levels in Medscape's 2024 "Physician Burnout and Depression Report."
Counselors and staffers who work for the nation's 988 suicide and crisis hotline are asking for more training in the face of increasing calls, according to a Jan. 24 report from KFF Health News.
Mergers and acquisitions in the behavioral health field are expected to increase in 2024 after just 31 deals were completed in the final quarter of 2023, according to Mertz Taggart's "Q4 2023 Behavioral Health M&A Report."
Substance use recovery services provider Diamond Recovery Group is opening its first behavioral health facility.
Three behavioral health-related roles are among the top 10 of Indeed's list of the 25 best jobs of 2024, with mental health technician topping the list.
A patient at Dover (Delaware) Behavioral Health was charged with attempted murder after allegedly assaulting another patient at the facility, NBC affiliate WRDE reported Jan. 22.