Living in a rural area, for all its benefits, can come with some specific challenges. An important one can be access to services such as health care. This can be especially true for specialty services like behavioral health care. Serving those with unique health care needs requires new approaches when large specialty health care providers […]
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Is the Next Treatment Breakthrough under our Noses?
To promote recovery and treatment of people with serious mental illnesses, the health care community must foster innovation in treatment and resources. We are making great strides with interventions such as Coordinated Specialty Care for early intervention in psychosis. Medications are a critical part of treatment and recovery for many persons, especially those with Serious […]
Finding Help for Families and Youth, and Finding Hope on National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
Viewers of the hit television show “Modern Family” know Reid Ewing as the talented, handsome actor and musician who has a recurring role as Dylan, the boyfriend of one of the show’s core characters. Nobody would have guessed the difficulties that he went through for years while trying to make his name in Hollywood. Last year, […]
More Young Adults Use Private Insurance for Behavioral Health Treatment following the ACA’s Dependent Coverage Mandate
In 2010, the Affordable Care Act extended health insurance coverage to individuals aged 19 to 25 whose parents had employer-sponsored private insurance. Thanks to this extended coverage, more young adults have access to mental health and substance abuse treatment services through their parents’ employer-sponsored health insurance. A new report from SAMHSA also shows these changes […]
Providing OTP Services during Service Disruptions
Imagine a severe storm disrupts services at opioid treatment programs (OTPs) in your community, leaving most of them closed due to flooding and loss of power. Then imagine being a patient whose access to needed medications could mean the difference between sustaining recovery or relapsing. Fortunately, OTPs in a nearby community are open and providing […]
Recovery is Real
I am person in long term recovery, meaning I haven’t used alcohol or drugs in over 23 years. When I started on my recovery journey, there was no “recovery movement” and we did not talk about being in recovery. We were silent. Today, I am proud to be a part of the ever-growing recovery movement […]
New Grants to Help States Expand Comprehensive, High-Quality Behavioral Health Care
Today, our nation took a major step forward in helping communities build their capacity to provide quality behavioral health care and treatment for Americans who experience mental illnesses and addictions, including those with serious mental illnesses. This is critically important. As the results of SAMHSA’s 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health show, there […]
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