HHS Provides $77M in Grants for Substance Use Prevention, Mental Health
HHS awarded $77 million in SAMHSA grants for substance use prevention and treatment, mental health, suicide prevention and crisis services.
Stigma Against Addiction Medication Limits Our Ability to End the Opioid Epidemic
Even as studies and personal experiences repeatedly reflect the effectiveness of MOUD, a stigma about this approach and the medication persists, complicating efforts to help more people treat their opioid use disorders.
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Automation Didn’t Dehumanize Care. Bad Systems Did.
We have the opportunity to design systems that give people greater capacity for the work where human presence matters most: listening, understanding, reassuring, deciding, and caring.
Prioritizing Care That Cures – Fighting the Epidemic With Opioid Treatment Programs
Policymakers should recognize the advantages of this multi-faceted care model and ensure legislative and regulatory environments allow for its continued growth.
How State Medicaid Programs Are Responding to the Behavioral Health Crisis
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration identifies three core crisis services that should be available to those in need of behavioral health support: crisis hotlines, mobile crisis units and crisis stabilization. However, 33 state Medicaid programs don't cover all of these services, a new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found.
How SAMHSA Is Tackling the Mental Health Workforce Shortage
Improving the mental health workforce shortage is one of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's top priorities right now, said Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, assistant secretary for mental health and substance use at HHS and the administrator of SAMHSA. To tackle this, the organization has several resources and grant programs in place to recruit more providers and support primary care physicians in treating mental health.
Providers watch legislation that would extend telehealth treatment for substance use
Temporary policy changes during the Covid-19 pandemic let people access substance use treatment over telehealth for the first time. Now, healthcare providers and policymakers are watching legislation that would allow patients to continue to access these services virtually.
Why Pharma Companies Should Look To Social Media For Better Patient Insight
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.