Jake Le Clair

Mental health problems aren’t unique to adults. Children and adolescents also face struggles with their mental health. In fact, youth mental health seems to be worsening nationwide. And although the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these trends, the youth mental health crisis was already a growing problem throughout the past decade.  Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality […]

Despite the declining number of cases over the past decade, an estimated 1.2 million people in the United States still live with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 Thankfully, most no longer see it as the terminal illness they once saw it as forty years ago. Proactive medical care makes HIV a chronic but manageable condition,

The fatal results of the opioid epidemic are widely recognized. Anyone involved in substance abuse rehabilitation, and even many outside of it, knows of opioids’ deadly impact in the United States. Officially declared a Public Health Emergency in 2018, the opioid crisis continues its devastating push despite ongoing efforts to combat it.1 However, two more

In case it wasn’t difficult enough for addiction treatment professionals to dismantle the stigma surrounding addiction, they also have to work through the stigma surrounding some addiction treatment methods, too. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a primary method for treating people with substance use disorders. Primarily focused on opioid use disorder, MAT uses prescription medications to