MIAMI — 4 Investigates traveled to Florida to see firsthand the Miami program that helped inspire New Mexico’s new behavioral health reform law — and to understand what state policymakers saw before ...

Correspondent photo / Susan Wojnar Alexander Amstutz of Cortland, above, is a peer support specialist at the Carl Nunziato VA Clinic in Youngstown. For many veterans, recovery from mental health ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Kim Moser, R-Taylor Mill, chair of the House Health Services Committee, is sponsoring a bill that would extend a deadline for ...

Peer support in mental health services is an increasingly integral component of care, valued for its capacity to enhance recovery, self-efficacy and empowerment among service users. By harnessing the ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - The National Fraternal Order of Police conducted peer support training this week at the Resiliency Center in downtown Parkersburg, teaching law enforcement officers how to ...

The state introduced a new curriculum earlier this year that is aligned with national standards. Indiana also started to allow family members of people with substance use disorders to become certified ...

GRANTS — Nabor Santiesteban grew up on the streets of New Mexico, spending years with a drug addiction that left him in a wheelchair with a spinal infection while in and out of prison. In 2011, he was ...

Daniel Larson was born into a multigenerational household where addiction was part of the DNA. It began with his grandfather, who Larson said developed a drinking problem after coming over from Norway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maximum security prison in Boscobel Wisconsin Secure Program Facility in Boscobel, a maximum security prison where the peer ...

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...