2026 healthcare trends: The growing role of addiction and recovery support

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  • Key Insight: Discover how mental health and substance use disorders can be a drain on workplace productivity.
  • What’s at stake: Employers risk further increasing healthcare spending without preventative services that meet acute needs.
  • Forward Look: Prepare for low-utilized, high-cost benefits to be cut in order to to invest in more diverse options.
  • Source: Bullets generated by AI with editorial review

As employers brace for rising healthcare prices next year, many are finding that better investments in behavioral health could be one of the most effective ways to curb costs.

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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