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Creating Sacred Spaces in Opera and Behavioral Healthcare What does opera have to do with our work, you may have wondered as you read the title of this piece? Well, if you’re familiar with opera, there are lots of “mad” scenes in many. On occasion, those scenes are used at our national psychiatric…

Former Southwest Airlines CEO Herb Kelleher, who died Jan. 3, believed in putting staff—not customers—first. The addiction treatment industry should follow his lead.

New training grants and a loan repayment program seem to signal that Washington is at last acknowledging the workforce shortage among addiction treatment providers.

In order to fortify the behavioral health workforce, industry leaders must find a way to funnel more money toward payroll. The options include tougher payer negotiations and expansion of CCBHCs.

When I consider the idea of prevention—not unlike the prevention efforts we rally around for addiction or suicide—I think about how we must do better, insisting that men/boys come to understand the impact sexual harassment has.

 Ever since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, behavioral healthcare has been warming to the notion that our field must learn and adopt the strategies and techniques of public health.