Our mental healthcare system is broken. Our addiction treatment system is broken.
We are still reeling from the opioid crisis, which we never quite got our arms around. And I am just thinking that we ar...
I believe that because of the wide number of plans and the fact that these plans have not yet come close to earning our ...
I can't help but think a huge uptick in the prescribing of benzodiazepines, coupled with huge increases in alcohol consu...
We need substantive systemic reform. We need legal mental health parity, like what my cousin Patrick has envisioned.
Isolation is not good for your mental health. It is a coping mechanism for people who do have addiction and mental illne...
And so, Doctor, if a health plan is not compliant in providing parity coverage for mental and behavioral health services...
To think that we are losing just as much, if not more, to these illnesses and we are not hearing about it at all.
benzodiazepine scripts have gone up over 30 percent since COVID hit--30 percent.
addiction is addiction is addiction. It could be opioids today, but it could be benzodiazepines tomorrow.
So one of the things that the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Treatment Act, along with subsequent parity laws, did w...