"My heart felt it might stop while talking to you about it just now. But I remember there are people still in there, so I ...

We have some good news today: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is investing millions of dollars into peer-led recovery from addiction and substance use. Trump says Democrats in Congress, some of ...

Americans think Trump is not mentally sharp enough to lead the country, according to the Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Formed after a tragic jail overdose, Brothers Against Drug Deaths (BADD) is launching services to fight racial disparities in ...

With an estimated 1.2 million people with serious mental illness locked up in the nation’s prison and jails, advocates continue to push for more options to divert people to care instead of ...

Trump's mental instability and sole authority to launch nuclear weapons make him "a clear and present danger," one doctor ...

US President Donald Trump and HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Oval Office on February 25, 2025. Photo: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA via AP Images It may sound like a new psychological ...

Coroners and medical detectives are on the hunt for orphines, lethal opioid killers which don't show up on routine toxicology ...

Universal Health Services Inc., one of the largest operators of behavioral health facilities in the country, was pulled back into the news this month as Illinois prosecutors charged a former mental ...

Detainees at North Lake Processing Center in Michigan launched a hunger strike on April 20 to protest inhumane living ...

This story originally appeared in Reasons to be Cheerful, a nonprofit online magazine. When he walked out of prison after 28 years, the first thing Allen Burnett did was drive to the ocean. “I just ...