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The National Association for Rural Mental Health's annual conference, held recently in Santa Fe, New Mexico, identified behavioral health challenges in rural areas and offered solutions to address them.

The New York State Department of Health announced last week that it is submitting an application to CMS to provide Medicaid services to incarcerated persons about to be released from county jails and New York State prisons.

Evidence-based practices are a hot topic of conversation, but their success frequently can hinge on the systems, organizations and communities in which they are deployed. 

Clinicians can take note of a maestro's meditation practices to help ward off burnout.

If you felt that you were developing burnout or some sort of diagnosable mental illness, would you tell someone at work about it? Why, or why not? After all, we tell the public and patients that the stigma of mental illness would be reduced if they…

The Affordable Care Act is in peril again following a ruling last year by a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas. It is time once again for those who support the ACA to speak up on its essential nature.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness represent an excellent framework to create a plan of action for addressing the crisis in behavioral healthcare.

Public confusion between cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is stymying essential medical progress in the treatment of a range of illnesses.

Instead of settling for an off-the-shelf solution, invest in a space that strikes a balance between feel, the needs of the patients and appropriate safety features.

Recognition and treatment are critical for depression or anxiety and opioid dependence or addiction, but it's time to go further up the causal chain if we are to reduce suicide and opioid overdose deaths.