Accessing mental health care can be a harrowing ordeal. Even if a patient finds a therapist in their network, their insurance company can overrule that therapist and decide the prescribed treatment ...
Dr. Daniel Vigo says only about 2,500 people in B.C. have a combination of mental illness, substance use and brain injury, ...
Insurers’ failures to update their provider directories have led to dire consequences for people seeking mental health care.
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would give him access to mental health providers. But even after 21 ...
Columnist Charita Goshay writes that in the hysteria over Springfield, the real-life crisis is our country's lack of mental ...
National Recovery Month was established by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration but began with a different name and purpose. In 1989, they started “Treatment Works! Month” to ...
Without enough psychiatrists, regional health care is affected. Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center closed its Psychiatric ...
River Valley Primary Care Services in Ratcliff will receive $600,000 as part of a $1.8 million federal program designed to expand mental health and substance use disorder treatment at three community ...
Our cover story this week tells the tragic tale of Henry Friedler, a young New Orleanian who lost his life to suicide in 2020 ...
ETH Zurich researchers discover the potential of antidepressants in treating aggressive brain tumors like glioblastoma.
Video game addiction, a growing concern for parents and healthcare professionals alike, is increasingly recognized as a ...
A Metairie man charged with brutally beating his wife with dumbbells, stabbing her and trying to strangle her with a string ...