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April 17, 2025 – Beginning this month, care for substance use and mental health will go hand-in-hand. Rannon Arch, Director of Co-Occurring Clinical Services for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, says mental health treatment is being integrated into all levels of care, across every site. 79% of patients now have more than one treatable mental health condition, a 10% increase in just five years.
“The pandemic impacted our patients in pretty profound ways,” he said. “Most of our patients have two to three – if not more – mental health conditions that they’re going through.”
According to Arch, 53% of patients have some kind of anxiety disorder, 40% are dealing with depression and 38% are battling trauma or another stress-related disorder.
Rannon Arch: “That’s often what’s returning them to back to substance use and so if we don’t start addressing their mental health in a more comprehensive way, our patients are at risk for undue outcomes that we don’t want them to have to go through.”
