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The impact of behavioral health is finally getting its moment in the sun. As the shades of stigma are slowly lifted, people are beginning to speak about mental health and substance use disorders.

From the classrooms to the water coolers, thoughtful discussions are occurring every day. Consider a paper released by Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business citing that workplace stress accounts for nearly 8 percent of the national spend on healthcare and adds up to between $125 and $190 billion spent in healthcare costs per year.


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