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Substance Use Disorder
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Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed
Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building…
UT Health San Antonio launches Be Well Institute for substance use research and treatment
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is establishing the Be…
California hospitals, advocates seek stable funding to retain behavioral health navigators
Health providers and addiction experts warn the funding structure is unstable for a California initiative that steers patients…
Exposure to neighborhood violence linked to unmet health needs and increased care utilization in children
A new collaborative study between Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Hennepin Healthcare Research…
Health care workers push for their own confidential mental health treatment
States are redefining when medical professionals can get mental health treatment without risking notifying the boards that regulate…
Restoring brain pathways to fight opioid addiction
Medical University of South Carolina scientists report in Neuron that they have uncovered a way to restore an…