Congress allocated$505 millionto the CDC to combat the opioid crisis, with a significant portion dedicated to tracking opioid use and overdose trends and bolstering state and local prevention efforts. However, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, another agency...
The statistics are among several mental health trends in high schoolers that have worsened most among girls over the past decade, according to data from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior SurveypublishedMonday. Overall, 22% of high schoolers said they have considered suicide. That is somewhat better...
In 2022, suicide ranked as the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, with 49,513 deaths, and about 136 people per day die by suicide in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023b). Show abstract How COVID-19 transformed the landscape of transportation...
Such programs commonly involve shared spaces for group therapy, and people struggling with substance use often have heightened vulnerability to coronavirus infection because of other health conditions. Moreover, as Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has noted, individua...