Smoking & Mental Illness: What You Need to Know
There were approximately 264 billion cigarettes were sold in the U.S. last year and adults with a mental illness smoked almost one-third of all of those cigarettes. The Doctors are …
American Lung Association and MD Anderson Announce Effort to Improve Tobacco Cessation Treatment for Medicaid Enrollees
The Impact According to the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), approximately 1 in 5 US adults has either a mental illness, substance use disorder, or both[1]. People …
A hidden epidemic — among smokers with mental illness
Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle Joe Alaniz smokes along San Pablo Ave. in San Pablo, Calif. on Tues. Sept. 6, 2016. California’s proposition 56, the cigarette initiative is passed would …
National Council urges removal of FDA’s black box warning for varenicline
On September 14th, 2016, The National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council) testified during the Open Public Hearing (OPH) portion of the FDA Joint Meeting of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee …
E-cigarettes: Good news, bad news
Re-posted from Harvard Health Publications Written by: John Ross, MD, FISDA Americans are confused about electronic cigarettes. A recent poll showed that the public was about evenly split between those …
How do we decrease tobacco use for everyone?
Last week, the New York Times reported on the the continued decline of cigarette use, a trend highlighted by a recent CDC survey. While tobacco use has continued to go down for the general …
Organizations & State/Tribal Agencies Launch into Tobacco & Cancer Control Communities of Practice
Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and through the National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco & Cancer Control, the National Council for Behavioral Health is pleased to …
Smokers Need Not Apply
ServiceNet, a mental health and social service agency headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts, had long been a tobacco-free environment when they decided to take it a step further and create a …