Behavioral Health

Tough love used to be a fairly common approach in educating children with behavioral and emotional issues. Often it was more tough t ...

Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro says opioid abuse has become the biggest threat to keeping Pennsylvania residents safe. ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s latest stop on a state-wide anti-opioid abuse tour was on Monday, in Princeton. Nearly 200 health ...

Three pharmacy school students gathered outside a windowless brick storefront in Fairhill, just blocks from Philadelphia’s most not ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

Rutgers University has opened one of New Jersey’s first clinics dedicated to treating psychosis in teens and young adults, the time of ...

Is Donald Trump, with his daily Twitter harangues, impulsive and outrageous executive orders, and all-around nastiness harming the health of individuals?

I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...

It’s Valentine’s Day, and you might be looking forward to getting flowers or a date tonight with your special someone at ...

With approximately one in 10 Americans having a problem with addiction, the odds are that someone at your holiday celebration this year struggles with substance abuse.

Imagine for a moment your childhood memories included living in a bomb shelter for years, watching your 2-year-old sister die in your arms.

Our 9-year-old son has recently been battling insomnia, lying awake each night until 10 or 11 p.m. The rare nights he falls asleep easily ...

People just don't seem to understand the way I think, so when they can follow my train of thought, it feels like I have superpowers.

I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...