The Addison Township Community Mental Health Board approved $1.109 million in grant funding at its Dec. 17, meeting to ...

Struggling with a substance use disorder is never easy, and is even more difficult to overcome without substantial help from others. One reason substance use can be so challenging is that many people ...

You may have heard the term “co-occurring disorder” or “dual diagnosis” or “comorbidity”—but what do these constructs mean, exactly? The term co-occurring disorder refers to the presence of two or ...

Credit: Getty Images. Health care workers biases, unconscious or conscious, can influence clinical judgement and affect the decision-making process—particularly in emergency departments. Although ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Many ...

One in ten physicians sought mental health or substance use care over a recent 19-year period, with demand rising sharply during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research showed. The ...

NAMI is helping bring clarity and safety to AI in mental health by evaluating chatbot responses, risks, and safeguards—guided by science and lived experience.

Former Nickelodeon child star Tylor Chase, who was found disheveled and homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, struggles ...

Officials were motivated by people’s calls for helping someone before they reach the legal threshold of being a danger to ...

A California new law expands CARE Court, a mental health program championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, to include some people ...

Alcohol, drug and vape use are decreasing among students in Summit and Wasatch counties, following a statewide trend.