Twitter is the latest social media vehicle to address substance abuse, recently promoting the Addiction Resource Center, an online platform that helps connect people with substance use disorders to local resources. The site gets your attention. It confronts visitors with a question prompt, asking what concerns you—your own substance use or a loved ones.

It is estimated that one in 12 teenagers, mostly girls, self-harm, according to a study by the Center for Adolescent Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia. In an effort to help those suffering with mental health issues, a new app called ‘Calm Harm’ is targeting those with anxiety or depression. 

12 million people a year are trained in CPR, but only 1 million people have been trained by a mental health first aid program over the past ten years. “Our goal is essentially to take mental health first aid to the same level of importance as CPR,” said Suzi Craig, the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and Policy of Mental Health Connecticut, Suzi Craig.

Ryan Breshears, chief behavioral officer at Wellstar's Medical Group in Georgia, had a tough case to make: the hospital's behavioral costs were going up and its revenues were slightly down.

A new Center for Behavioral Health Sciences opened at Cleveland State University in an effort to address the opioid crisis and prevent the further spread of addiction ‘by bringing together expertise in social work, psychology, public health, education, and urban policy.’