Caron Medical Director: What We Get Wrong in Behavioral Health

In Dr. Adam Scioli's op-ed in Behavioral Health Business, he addresses the need to take a more comprehensive approach to behavioral health in the U.S. and why what we're doing in the US isn't quite working, including these broader points:

• People cannot find or afford the help they need
• There are huge gaps in how we educate and train health care practitioners on behavioral health
• We emphasize stability over wellness, limiting the length of treatment
• We have siloed treatment of mental health and SUD
• Relying solely on medication is becoming a norm that dismisses what we know works
• Our fascination with ‘magic pills’ extends to substances such as cannabis and psilocybin
• The emergence of xylazine (or tranq) as a street drug underscores that there are no quick fixes

Read the article: Caron Medical Director: What We Get Wrong in Behavioral Health.