About 1 in 6 Americans met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2024, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National spending on substance use disorder (SUD) and mental health treatment has grown from roughly $41 billion in 2000 to nearly $140 billion by 2021. And yet only about 1 in 5 of those who needed treatment actually received it. The reasons are real and well-documented: too few providers, too much stigma, too little infrastructure in rural communities. I spend a lot of time with the leaders running behavioral health and SUD organizations across the…
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AI has quickly become embedded in our everyday work, from drafting emails to synthesizing research and making decisions. In my roles as a medical doctor and business consultant, I talk to many corporate leaders who are focused on what that means for productivity. But recently, some have been asking a more fundamental question: What does AI use mean for the cognitive health of my workforce? Emerging research suggests this is not a theoretical concern. AI doesn’t just accelerate thinking – it often displaces it. When used passively, AI can weaken memory, judgment, learning, and confidence, and even diminish independent problem-solving.…
Below, Ric Bucher shares five key insights from his new book, Coachable: How the Greatest Performers Reach Their Highest Potential. Ric is a longtime sportswriter and TV analyst for ESPN, TNT, and most recently Fox Sports. His writing has been recognized by the Pro Basketball Writers Association, and he has built an international podcast network, United We Cast, which includes his personal show, On the Ball With Ric Bucher. What’s the big idea? The path to realizing your full potential begins with refusing to let your strengths, weaknesses, successes, or setbacks define who you are. By cultivating faith, adaptability, and a broader…
In October 1956, when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush the nascent Hungarian Revolution and the national aspirations it represented, the communist empire seemed at its apex. With a strong leader, a command economy, and an iron will, it seemed undeniable that the West, with all its messy deliberation, would be unable to compete. Yet Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a young Harvard scholar, saw things differently. Fluent in Russian, he had traveled throughout the Soviet Union and was struck by its underlying weakness. In particular, he noticed that barely half the crowd at a soccer game in Soviet Georgia bothered…
How many times have politicians stood before the American people claiming Social Security is “running out of money?” That is the biggest fraud of all. I have said for decades that Social Security is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. Your payroll taxes are not sitting safely in an account waiting for retirement. They were spent by Washington years ago. The so-called Social Security Trust Fund is filled with government IOUs, not real assets. Every administration kicked the can down the road while pretending there was a trust fund. There never was. They borrowed every dime and spent it on…
SpaceX is beginning to lay the groundwork for an accelerated launch schedule for its Starship spacecraft. The company will begin building a pipeline next month to bring natural gas to its Starbase complex, where it can be processed and converted into liquid methane to fuel the reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle. Ultimately, that could help the company meet its goal of as many as 25 launches per year, and perhaps allow it to exceed that number. At present, fuel for the rocket has to be transported to the Starbase complex, a process that is both time-consuming and expensive. By running…
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence as though it is simply the next technology boom. They are missing the bigger picture. The country that controls the chips, the data centers, the electricity, and the manufacturing capacity will hold the strategic advantage for decades. This is no different than steel before World War I or oil during the twentieth century. Nations are no longer competing over cheap labor. They are competing for technological dominance. South Korea has now announced one of the largest industrial investment programs in modern history. President Lee Jae Myung unveiled a national strategy centered on semiconductors, physical…
Samsung builds fantastic phones, but the company also has a habit of shipping them with some of their absolute best features turned off by default. If you want to unlock the full potential of your Galaxy device, let’s take a few minutes to dive into your settings menu. There, you’ll find some incredibly cool features you should enable right away. Wireless power sharing Imagine your friend’s phone is dying, or your wireless earbuds completely fizzle out right before a flight. If you have a modern Galaxy phone, you’re carrying around a portable wireless charging pad in your pocket. You just…
The United States is now chasing critical minerals because Washington finally realized that outsourcing everything to China was national suicide. Tungsten is not some luxury commodity. It is used in missile warheads, fighter aircraft, semiconductors, and defense technology. Kazakhstan has one of the largest undeveloped tungsten deposits in the world, and the project could eventually produce around 12,000 metric tonnes per year, roughly equal to America’s entire annual imports. But here is where the story begins to stink. According to India Today, before the Kazakhstan deal was finalized, the Trump administration was prepared to back the project with up to…
Flooded basements, mold growth, and rotting wood are all symptoms of the alarming uptick in flood damage facing property owners nationwide. Its costs, which can reach nearly a staggering half a trillion in the U.S. each year, are surging as the impact of climate change worsens. And that impact is becoming unpredictable, with 29% of flood claims coming from outside what are typically considered “high risk areas.” The search for an answer to this crisis has been focused disproportionately on insurance premiums and incentives, along with state-backed schemes to ensure reinsurance companies can be counted on. And while important, that…