Mental Health and Substance Use
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
The 2010 report of the National Commission on Children and Disasters recommended that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should “enhance the research agenda for children’s disaster mental and behavioral health, including psychological first...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the tenth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (see https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/ [accessed March 20, 2024]), a student competition held in 2023 by the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 26, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | As the United States grapples with the persistent challenges of chronic pain and substance use disorder (SUD), the rise in telehealth has opened new horizons for health care delivery. This paper delineates a comprehensive action agenda for the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past three decades underscore the critical need to prevent overdose deaths and reduce the development of opioid and related substance use disorders (SUDs). Traditional public...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 6, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background In 2018, the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM’s) Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic was established to catalyze public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders to develop, curate, and implement multi-sector solutions designed...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction The health system exists to serve the most fundamental need of society: people’s health and well-being. To do so effectively requires engaging people...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 1, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coupled with the increasing awareness of racial inequity in the United States, as sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has led to a moment of reckoning...
by Madeleine Deye | Oct 4, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction As the United States continues grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, a long-standing and worsening public health crisis escalates. In 2020, more than 93,000 people in the U.S. died of drug-related overdoses largely due to the synthetic opioid...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
Scientists looking for innovative ways to deliver healthcare have long searched for mechanisms that can enable the right intervention to be delivered at the right time. Traditional delivery mechanisms have been limited both to the availability of a provider...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 21, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction and Rationale Suicide rates have risen among young people ages 18–25 in the United States over the past ten years (see Figure 1) [1]. Mental health concerns are on the rise as well, with more teens and young adults experiencing challenges such as...
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