Hefei Wen ([email protected]) is a faculty member in the Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ...

Before we get into our list of the many online support groups that may help people struggling right now, allow me to say something kind of obvious: Just about everything we’ve been through since March ...

The May 2020 issue of Health Affairs journal includes the article, “Self-Help Groups And Medication Use In Opioid Addiction Treatment: A National Analysis,” by Hefei Wen and colleagues. In response to ...

A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person’s expectations about a situation come true due to changes in their own behavior. It is a psychological phenomenon that can play a role in mental health.

Relapse prevention is why most people seek treatment, and with opioid use disorders (OUDs), there’s about a 90 percent relapse rate. This article explains why and how specific sayings from self-help ...

The early 1970s were a bad time for women’s health care. It wasn’t just that abortions were illegal in most of the country, forcing some women to rely on back-alley providers for often dangerous ...