UPRISE: A New Model for Teen Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment
By the time students reach New York City’s Judith S. Kaye High School (JSK), multiple systems have failed them. As a public transfer school for students with significant barriers to their education, many of JSK’s students have faced significant adversity. “All of our...
Inpatient Psychiatry at Mount Sinai: Interdisciplinary Care and Cutting Edge Treatment
Stigma remains a big problem for psychiatry. Inpatient psychiatric care, in particular, has long suffered from unfair portrayal. The mere mention of an inpatient psychiatric unit conjures up images of Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. This stigma is...
‘What a Wonderful World’ Gala Benefits Music Therapy
The 17th annual “What a Wonderful World” gala benefiting the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, was a festive evening of jazz and expressions of gratitude to three honorees for making the world more wonderful through their contributions to music and music...
Treating Substance Use in Pregnancy: Mount Sinai’s New Bridge Program
Addiction is an all-too-common problem among pregnant people, with devastating results for parents and their children. Now The Bridge Program, a new initiative at Mount Sinai, is providing integrated prenatal care and substance use treatment. Launched in September...
Mount Sinai’s Opioid Treatment Programs are Saving—and Restoring—Lives
In 2021, drug overdose deaths in the United States surpassed 100,000 annually for the first time, according to CDC data. The vast majority — 75,673 —were caused by opioids, up from 56,064 the year before. One factor in those lost lives is fentanyl, a powerful opioid...
Suicide Prevention: We Can Make a Difference
Suicide is a serious public health problem, one that affects a broad segment of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But it can be hard to talk about. In fact, there is one suicide death every 11 minutes, and that does not...
