Millions of Americans experience both mental illness and substance use disorders, and there's a need for comprehensive, ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

Co-occurring disorder refers to having a co-existing mental illness and substance use disorder. While commonly used to refer to the combination of substance use and mental disorders, the term can also ...

Photo by Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, tries to understand the underlying co-occurring disorders that led Nick Reiner to allegedly murder his ...

Substance use disorders (SUD) and compulsive behaviors, also labeled as process addictions, are not unique to any type of person or population, but there is an increased risk for adolescents to ...

A letter from Dr. Paula Riggs, Professor, Psychiatry. You’ve probably heard a lot about the youth mental health crisis and the opioid epidemic. But what’s often missing from the conversation is the ...

Close to 1 in 3 adolescents in the U.S. received mental health treatment in 2023, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported Tuesday, which works out to around 8.3 million ...

Launched in 2013, the harris project is a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention and treatment of co-occurring disorders (COD) - the combination of mental health challenges and substance use issues. Us ...

Identifying signs that you or someone you care about might have co-occurring disorders — the combination of mental health challenges and substance misuse — can be challenging, because symptoms may ...

Raman Baweja, M.D., from the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey, and colleagues examined the impact of co-occurring SUD on ADHD treatment patterns in a retrospective cohort study using ...