Mental health and addiction often share a tangled relationship, with each one feeding off and fueling the other. In fact, it’s estimated that nearly 38 percent of adults with substance use disorders ...

del Vecchio is former SAMHSA executive officer. At the age of 23, after years of mental health problems, addictions, and trauma, I found myself on a Philadelphia subway platform ready to end my life.

The series turned a voyeuristic lens to people with unusual habits, but it did raise awareness of various compulsive ...

Take a good look around any major urban area– and now, many rural spaces too– and you’ll see signs of drug abuse and addiction. The Baltimore City Department of Health reports that “In 2023, Baltimore ...

The experiences of one doctor in Louisiana reveal the tensions around trying to get people to engage in addiction treatment, ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

Part of the changing landscape of behavioral health in Cuyahoga County in the new year is a new crisis center in Cleveland's ...

“I lived fast and I was going to die young,” she told American Way magazine. Singer Demi Lovato performs onstage during The 58th GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Feb. 15, 2016, in Los Angeles.

School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons. Parents and caregivers bungling through new summer routines, or lack thereof, have long sought to balance the ...

Whenever I mentioned the phrase “pornography addiction” to a classroom of firefighters, there were snickers of laughter followed by pointing at one particular guy in the room, nodding their heads in ...

Mumbai: The Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) has reintroduced its Mental Health Helpline for senior ...