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Peer recovery support services (PRSS) are non-clinical services that support individuals with mental health conditions or substance use issues. They are often developed, designed and delivered by persons with lived experience in recovery. Although it can be traced back to the 1700s, new audiences…

Psych Congress Steering Committee member Julie Carbray, PhD, FPMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, APRN, discusses aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic which may have long-term mental health consequences for children and adolescents.

Psych Congress cochair Charles Raison, MD, will give a virtual keynote speech August 20, 2020, for the University of Louisville Depression Center’s annual benefit. The event is free and open to the public.

A Behavioral Healthcare Executive article on the LegitScript certification process for addiction treatment online marketing took second place in the Features: Trends category of the All Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards presented by the Press Club of Cleveland on Friday night. The story was…

Recovery Centers of America on Monday announced that it has promoted Dawn Belamarich, LPC, LCADC, ACS, to the role of CEO of RCA at Lighthouse, a 133-bed inpatient substance use disorder treatment center in Mays Landing, New Jersey. Belamarich succeeds David Dorschu, who is taking on the role of…

Attentional behaviors observed in babies at 12 months of age appear to predict behaviors related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at 4.5 years of age.

A blood test measuring phospho-tau217 (p-tau217), a major component of Alzheimer’s disease-related tau tangles, was able to discriminate participants with Alzheimer’s disease from those with other neurodegenerative diseases.

We know from years of trauma research that our bodies and minds “perceive danger” in different ways. As a result, it’s reasonable to expect that not everyone responding to the personal, emotional and professional threats of COVID will react in the same way. Individual perception and how people…

BLOG: The Physician Support Line launched by Dr. Mona Masood, a Philadelphia psychiatrist, started as an idea on social media, and now has more than 700 psychiatrist volunteers.

Centerstone, a not-for-profit health system that provides mental health and substance use disorder treatments, announced it has received a grant from SAMHSA that will be used to establish a Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Center that will provide treatment and recovery support services for substance…