More evidence has emerged to support GLP-1 medications’ potential as alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment tools. Few medications are available to treat AUD, and the use of the drugs is often “overshadowed” by other critical substance use disorder (SUD) trends. GLP-1s, the weight loss drugs sweeping the nation, could reduce alcohol use, according to a […]
Eating disorders commonly overlap with mental health issues. New research shows that patients are acutely aware of the need to treat both concerns. One of the top motivating factors for people with eating disorders to seek treatment is concern over mental health, according to new data from digital eating disorder treatment provider Equip. Sixty-nine percent […]
Universal Health Service (NYSE: UHS) has reported strong annual financial performance – as well as concern regarding potential Medicaid budget cuts. Medicaid changes have negatively impacted UHS’s behavioral health arm before. In 2024, the provider attributed low behavioral health patient days, in part, to Medicaid redeterminations. “We acknowledge that the current political environment has created […]
Substance use disorder (SUD) treatment provider You Are Accountable has raised $1.9 million, according to publicly available documents. The raise brings the provider’s total funding to over $3.8 million. New York City-based You Are Accountable provides online peer coaching and drug and alcohol monitoring directly to consumers and through partnerships with SUD treatment providers. Its […]
FullBloom, an academic, behavioral and mental health provider for schools, acquired school-based mental health provider CharacterStrong. The deal, announced on Wednesday, supports FullBloom’s increasing focus on mental health, according to the company. “Mental health has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges facing our schools and communities,” Jeffrey Cohen, CEO of FullBloom, said in […]
This is an exclusive BHB+ story Digital behavioral health startups experienced a tsunami of investor interest from 2020 to 2022. Founders now face a tough funding environment when growing their companies. As competition for funding dollars has increased, some say the pressure to become profitable as a new digital behavioral health startup is higher than […]
Virtual primary care provider LifeMD (Nasdaq: LFMD) has branched into the behavioral health industry and tapped a behavioral health executive with decades of experience to lead the expansion. New York City-based LifeMD announced Monday that it launched teletherapy, psychiatry and medication management services. It named Julian Cohen its senior vice president of behavioral health and […]
While matching patients with clinicians of similar backgrounds improves outcomes and care satisfaction, staffing constraints often make this challenging. Many providers have turned to practicing culturally responsive care as one way to improve connections between patients and providers who do not necessarily share lived experiences. Mental health providers use the practice to apply behavioral health […]
Nonprofit behavioral health provider Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health has acquired Strawberry Fields, a nonprofit provider of mental health, autism and intellectual disability care. Strawberry Fields will continue to operate as an independent legal entity but will have access to the larger organization’s systems and clinical model as an affiliate of Devereux. The acquisition will enable […]
Overdose deaths and fentanyl use have declined nationally, representing a rare glimmer of hope for the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment industry. However, new research shows that people are increasingly using heroin and methamphetamine, suggesting potentially dangerous broader reasons for the decline in fentanyl use. Heroin use among fentanyl users increased by 18% nationwide from […]
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