HHS is introducing new flexibilities designed to make telehealth treatment for opioid use disorder easier to access and adding new rules aimed at improving confidentiality.
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Although outpatient mental health visits on the whole have increased post-pandemic, participation in in-person and audio or video-based mental healthcare varies across sociodemographic groups, according to a study from the New York City-based Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health…
Research out of Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore could pave the way for a blood test for disease-associated changes in the brain, such as psychiatric and neurological disorders.
HHS will implement new rules designed to improve confidentiality for patients receiving treatment for substance use disorder and integrate records for these treatments with standard medical records.
New York City-based Montefiore Health System is using new funding from the state to fill gaps in behavioral care in the community.
Danette Smith has been appointed the next commissioner of the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, but rates have decreased after peaking in 2018, according to survey data published Feb. 6 by KFF.
The commissioners court of Hays County in Texas has approved a new behavioral health program focused on mental health and substance use needs throughout the county.
A former New Hampshire corrections officer was arrested and charged in the death of a psychiatric patient.
Officials in Licking County, Ohio, are looking to add to the state's small number of crisis stabilization centers as part of its community health improvement plan, the Newark Advocate reported Feb. 8.