Experiencing multiple childhood traumas doesn't just increase the risk of a single addiction. A new study suggests it creates ...

We recently worked on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report that lays out a clear blueprint for a national prevention infrastructure for mental and behavioral ...

Addiction to a drug means you cannot control your use of the substance, resulting in a harmful outcome. Drugs that are most commonly misused include alcohol, which can cause brain shrinkage, and ...

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 ...

Developers are working with health care providers to add psychiatric hospitals, addiction recovery centers and other behavioral health clinics. Acadia Healthcare and the Lutheran Health Network opened ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...

When child psychiatrist Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, was a few years into his career, he found himself doing it all. "I was in a leadership role academically at the medical school, I had a leadership role ...