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Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Behavioral Health: Are Current Policies Sufficiently Protecting Adolescents?
The rapid expansion of cannabis legalization across the U.S. has raised growing concerns about its impact on adolescents. Cannabis remains the most commonly used recreational drug among U.S. youth (Young-Wolff et al., 2026), and while cannabis use is not legal at the federal level, medical use has...
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Mind the Gap: Inside New York City’s Mental Health Crisis
Nearly a million New Yorkers cannot access the mental health care they need. A broken workforce, a fraying safety net, and deep inequities are forcing the nation's largest city to reimagine how — and for whom — mental health care is delivered. The Emergency Room at Midnight The...
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The Treatment Handoff Is Part of Care
A person can complete withdrawal management successfully and still lose the next step of care. A residential client can make meaningful progress and then leave without a confirmed outpatient appointment. A receiving program may know that a referral is coming but lack the medication list, risk...
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Beyond Translation: Why Behavioral Health Systems Need Bicultural Leadership and a Culturally Humble Workforce
Hispanic Heritage Month allows us to honor and celebrate Latino and Hispanic histories and cultures. But it should also challenge behavioral health organizations to ask a harder question: Have we evolved beyond merely translating words to truly understanding people? Language access is vital....
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How to Dismantle Self-Stigma in Schizophrenia
Hi, my name is Dr. Tracy Hicks. I am a mother, a friend, an educator, a mentor, a wife, a psychiatric healthcare provider...among many other parts of my identity. How I introduce myself is an important element of how I view myself and how the outside world views me. My experience with...
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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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AI/Agentic AI Behavioral Health Systems Ready for New Privacy Regulations
For years, many behavioral health leaders treated privacy rule 42 CFR Part 2 as a policy and training issue. In 2026, that is no longer enough. What has changed is the environment around the rule. Substance use disorder (SUD) records now move across EHRs, referral networks, analytics...
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The Future of CCBHCs: From Program Expansion to System Transformation
As policymakers search for solutions to the nation's mental health and substance use crisis, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) represent one of the most promising opportunities for meaningful system change. CCBHCs were established through the Protecting Access to Medicare Act...
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Shifting the Weight: Addressing Substance Use Disorder in Nursing
Substance use disorder (SUD) impacts both the individual experiencing it and everyone in their life. SUD does not discriminate and affects people from all walks of life, regardless of age, occupation, economic circumstances, ethnic background, or gender. Healthcare professionals are not immune, but...
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The Search Before the Session: How People Actually Look for Behavioral Health Care Online and Where They Get Stuck
For a growing number of Americans, the path to behavioral health care does not begin in a doctor's office or with a referral from a friend. It begins with a search box. Before anyone fills out an intake form or sits in a waiting room, they type a question into a search engine, and what generates in...
