PubliCola | September 25, 2025
In this op-ed, Susan Collins, PhD writes about involuntary addiction treatment and responds to Dr. Keith Humphrey's New York Times op-ed titled "Forced drug treatment isn't horrific. It's a relief.
Clinical Care & Consultation
A new Seattle clinic aims to turn an overdose into recovery
KUOW | August 26, 2025
Stabilizing someone after a drug overdose is critical to their survival, but that’s often not the end of their struggle. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD talks about a new recovery option in Seattle.
Podcast: Collaborative Care for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care
JAMA Network | August 20, 2025
Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD and Andy Saxon, MD discuss their new paper and how the collaborative care model can be adapted to treat opioid use disorder.
The country’s got kratom on the brain. What is it exactly?
KUOW | August 13, 2025
The FDA recently announced plans to restrict a substance called 7-OH, one of the compounds in kratom. Caleb Banta-Green, PhD discusses it in this interview from KUOW.
WA launches online Narcan finder amid rising overdose deaths
Columbia Basin Herald | August 12, 2025
Building on work spearheaded by ADAI, the WA State Department of Health has unveiled a new online tool to help residents swiftly locate free Narcan.
Four things to do if you can’t get your ADHD medication
Right as Rain | July 23, 2025
Margaret Sibley, PhD says to first talk with your doctor. “If you can’t get your medication, let them know immediately so that a plan for managing your ADHD without the typical medication can be created.”
FDA panel rejects brexpiprazole-sertraline combo for PTSD
Medscape | July 22, 2025
Clinicians are not convinced of the efficacy of the combination given the conflicting data. It would be “hard to translate the confusing contradictory datasets to my clinical practice,” says Murray Raskind, MD.
Medicaid cuts are likely to worsen mental health care in rural America
Stateline | July 22, 2025
“The folks who are having the most difficulty managing their lives - and that’s made worse by having depression or substance use disorder - are going to be the folks most likely to drop off,” says Ian Bennett, MD, PhD.
How to encourage your man to get help from a doctor
Right as Rain | July 14, 2025
Talking to men about getting help can be hard and might be embarrassing for them, says Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH. It’s important to get over that and confront their struggles directly to show it’s OK and they won’t be loved or respected any less for having them.
How Trump’s Medicaid work requirements could affect mental health care
Seattle Times | July 14, 2025
Some clinicians think Medicaid decisions could be made more specifically based on a person’s diagnosis. Sarah Kopelovich, PhD is concerned the rules won't account for people whose conditions are not linear.
