Be Well Clinic offers recovery, hope

October 25, 2024

Be Well Clinic, a state-supported initiative within the Be Well Institute on Substance Use and Related Disorders at UT Health San Antonio offers in-person and telehealth substance use treatment and recovery services for anyone in the state, regardless of ability to pay.

Be Well Clinic staff in clinic hallway




Healing young minds: UT Health San Antonio’s initiatives to address the adolescent mental health crisis

September 6, 2024

This story is featured in the September 2024 issue of the Bexar County Medical Society’s San Antonio Medicine Magazine. For the past decade, adolescent mental health disorders have skyrocketed, an issue propelled even further by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental health has declined surreptitiously for millions of people in recent years, affecting even the youngest among […]




UT Health San Antonio scientist awarded $300,000 grant to study effect of Spanish-language interpretation on child mental health outcomes

August 7, 2024

A researcher with (UT Health San Antonio) was awarded a $300,000 research project grant through the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium’s New and Emerging Children’s Mental Health Research initiative. Jessica Sandoval, MD, associate clinical professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in the Joe R. and […]


Alternatives for treatment-resistant depression offer hope

July 26, 2024

  Carey Calvin was at the lowest point in his life two years ago. After a childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse and years of antidepressant medications and therapies that were not working, Calvin was ready to give up. “It was the first time I felt like my family and the things closest to […]