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...
Epigenetic Disease in the HIV+ Brain: An Innovative Longitudinal Study Method
Most clinical studies benefit from taking repeated measurements over weeks, months, years. Researchers studying epigenetic disease processes in the brain don’t have that luxury. “You harvest the brain, and you only get one time point,” says Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD,...
Hope for Young People at Risk of Developing Psychosis
A college student often hears her name in the wind. A teenager starts to believe they have a special relationship with God. Another is worried that strangers are watching him. Yet they all retain insight and skepticism about the strange beliefs and perceptions they’re...
How Social Media is Leading to Anxiety for So Many Kids and What Parents Can Do About It
Growing up is never easy, and adolescence has often been a difficult time for kids. But the ongoing pandemic has made life even more difficult, especially combined with the always growing influence of social media. Nearly one in three adolescents will experience some...