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Sheppard Pratt has opened a new psychiatric facility between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and Oceans Healthcare has built a new flagship behavioral health hospital in Louisiana that triples the company's patient capacity in the region.

Ideal Option, which operates more than 60 office-based opioid treatment clinics across 10 states, has partnered with Safeway, one of the nation’s largest grocery retailers, to provide its services inside the wellness center at a Safeway store...

Centerstone has promoted Matt Hardy, PsyD, and Brad Nunn, PhD, to the roles of chief operating officer and chief clinical quality officer, respectively, for the organization’s operations in Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina.

A report by multiple addiction treatment and behavioral health executives has brought into focus the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken both on the mental health of the nation, as well as the treatment industry.

Hazelden Betty Ford this week announced the appointment of Sara Polley, MD, as the new medical director of the foundation’s national substance use and mental health treatment center for adolescents and young adults in Plymouth, Minnesota.

With input from the Drug Policy Alliance, U.S. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Cori Bush have introduced a bill that would eliminate federal criminal penalties for drug possession and reposition the federal government’s response to illicit...