Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that ...

Sara Howe has already seen what can happen when there’s a sudden loss of funding for drug treatment and mental health ...

Physicians Zsofi Szep and Judy Chertok have spent the last three years working to connect Penn Medicine patients with addiction treatment — with the help of a federal grant that they learned was ...

Nick Reiner reportedly was under a mental health conservatorship in 2020 and recently underwent a change in his medication due to side effects.

The idea that mental disorders are caused by a biological mechanism is linked with prolonged use of antidepressants and ...

Researchers analyzed Medicare claims data to find that an estimated 25 percent of dementia patients were prescribed risky medications, including antidepressants and antipsychotics.

New data show that psychiatric advanced practice practitioners provide guideline-concordant schizophrenia care that is ...

Coffee and the caffeine in it can interact with some drugs. Learn more about which drugs you should not take with coffee and when to discuss it with a healthcare provider.

Criminal defendants are overwhelming an understaffed state mental health system that, a few years ago, served thousands more ...

Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at increased risk of epilepsy (EP), but distinguishing epileptic seizures from ASD-associated behavior remains a clinical challenge.

Children and adolescents have always experienced trauma leading to emotional and behavioral difficulties. Yet this has been overlooked throughout history. As I reviewed the history of mental health ...