March 12th 2024
Wellpoint is the latest to expand mental health services, teaming up with InStride to offer virtual care for children and adolescents with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive order.
Demand Up, Supply Down = Adderall Shortage
December 1st 2022Short-term manufacturing problems are happening as the demand for Adderall and other stimulant medications for ADHD have increased. Data from Arrive Health show a marked increase in ADHD medication prescriptions for people in their 30s.
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Adolescent Mental Health is Worsening with Varied Impacts by Race, Sex, Sexual Orientation
June 29th 2022A recent issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation says anxiety and depression, drug overdose deaths, self-harm and eating disorders have increased in adolescents as access and utilization of mental health care has declined.
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Deaths by suicide and by substance use disorders have reached epidemic proportions, creating the tragic “perfect storm” of epidemics within a pandemic. A survey conducted by PRECISIONvalue of population health priorities among health systems and health plans since the onset of Covid-19 suggests that while mental health conditions have risen in priority, opioid use disorders have become alarmingly deprioritized.
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