mental illness

Major pharmaceutical companies like Eli Lilly are exploring how psychedelics might be used to treat mental health disorders like PTSD or treatment-resistant depression.

A new investigation finds that abuse rates are higher at nursing homes with more mental illness. There’s a financial reason behind why folks end up at nursing homes instead of other institutions in the first place.

For younger workers, an episode of depression is linked to 24% lower earnings more than a decade later.

Costs are often indirect, such as not being able to work.

New rules on patient privacy and mental health records for gun background check.

Professional development is lacking, experts say, but costs can be prohibitory.