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Remembering Semyon F. Gluzman, MD: A Psychiatric Hero and Role Model
Most psychiatrists whose names are recognized beyond their professional colleagues have made significant intellectual contributions to our understanding of human behavior through their explorations of psychology and its neurologic underpinnings. Semyon F. Gluzman, MD, who died earlier this year at...
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Elevated Use of Cannabis, Nicotine Among U.S. Adults Continues Into 2025
National Survey Finds Alcohol, Cigarette, Other Substance Use at Low Levels In 2025, adults in the United States reported using cannabis at or near record-high levels, continuing a long-term trend of increasing use. Nicotine vaping also remained high among young adults. These findings are based...
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New Screening Approach Detects Childhood Mental Health Risks Traditional Methods Miss
At a Glance Screening for home and family stresses may help identify children at risk for depression and sleep disorders that traditional adversity screening misses. This type of screening could be used to identify and intervene with children at risk of mental health...
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Closing the Gap Between Care and Outcomes in Behavioral Health Policy
As behavioral health expands access and continues to trend toward more parity with physical health, the focus is moving from just counting how many people get care to asking whether that care is actually improving lives. How behavioral health organizations consistently and clearly answer that...
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Your Electronic Health Record Should Help You Deliver Suicide Care
Many frontline behavioral health teams are expected to deliver suicide-safer care inside systems that were not built to support it. Staff are asked to screen for suicide risk, complete additional assessment when needed, create or update safety plans, coordinate handoffs, complete follow-up, and...
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Advocacy Through Data: Making the Case for Community Behavioral Health Under Value-Based Payment
Most behavioral health policy arguments still run on stories. A person who was in and out of the hospital for years, then found a community program, got stable, went back to work. The stories are true and they matter. But a recovery story does not hold up well in a budget hearing or a payer...
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Comprehensive Linkage to Care for Individuals Living With HIV Returning From Incarceration: Behavioral Health and Re-Entry Considerations
Comprehensive and expeditious linkage to appropriate care is vital for people being released from correctional facilities who are living with HIV and experience behavioral health conditions. In the United States, the incarcerated population, including prisons and local jails, has an HIV rate of up...
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Why More Adults Are Seeking ADHD and Mental Health Evaluations Later in Life
For decades, mental health evaluations were often viewed as something primarily sought by children, adolescents, or individuals experiencing severe psychiatric symptoms. Today, however, increasing numbers of adults — including many in midlife and beyond — are pursuing evaluations for...
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Measuring What Matters in Peer Support: Using Competencies and Fidelity to Strengthen the Workforce
Introduction: The Next Phase of Peer Support Development Peer support, a cornerstone of recovery-oriented behavioral healthcare, is a rapidly expanding service model nationally. Delivered by individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges, substance use, trauma, or disability, peer...
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NIH Researchers Discover Pain-Relieving Drug with Minimal Addictive Properties
Positive safety profile of novel drug compound is surprise for class of synthetic opioids shelved years ago. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a novel, highly potent opioid that shows potential as a therapy for both pain and opioid use disorder. In a study...
