Access to mental health and substance use care is essential for individuals, families, and communities to thrive. These challenges are widespread, affecting people from all walks of life, and have only grown in recent years due to increased stress and isolation.
Mental health concerns have become more pressing, while the opioid crisis continues to take a devastating toll, particularly in Philadelphia, where overdose deaths have risen at an alarming rate.
Penn Medicine is committed to increasing access to integrated mental health and substance use care, particularly for vulnerable populations. Through innovative programs, community partnerships, and workforce development initiatives, we strive to improve behavioral health care, engage communities, and provide life-changing support to those in need.
Here are just a couple of the many mental health and substance use programs we offer.
Mental health and substance use programs
Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy
Penn’s Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy works to improve evidence-based and stigma-free care for patients with opioid use or any substance use disorder. This multidisciplinary group includes nursing, social work, pharmacy, emergency medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics, anesthesiology and surgery, working in partnership with the center’s recovery specialists. They raise awareness that opioid use disorder is treatable while working to improve care wherever patients encounter health care.