The goal is not just to get a patient through the crisis they're facing, but to set them on a path to successful recovery.

Sober On Demand expands into adolescent mental health, intervention, sober companions, and case management, offering ...

A seemingly small and barely noticed organizational change in DSM-5 disguises what is really a giant conceptual leap—one that may eventually cause large and harmful unintended consequences. In DSM IV, ...

Many people with behavioral addictions have been told that they have a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). OCD is a mental disorder in which people experience repetitive intrusive thoughts ...

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 ...

Most of the genetic risk for developing a substance use disorder comes from genes that broadly affect how our brains process ...

A chunk of the $6.4 billion bond backed by Newsom is flowing to new addiction and mental health treatment programs in San ...

Alsan is the director of the Health Inequality Lab and the Annie and Ned Lamont professor of international studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Parekh is the chief health ...

Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring ...

San Francisco will provide 50 locked mental health treatment beds at UCSF Health Hyde Hospital on Nob Hill and a 44-bed ...

Atlas Behavioral Health provides structured addiction treatment and recovery support programs for individuals and ...

A non-intoxicating compound in cannabis could offer a breakthrough treatment for alcohol use disorder. New research shows CBD ...