ADAA Public Statements and Statement Policies

Public statements are issued by ADAA's Board of Directors and cover a variety of mental health health issues. Read ADAA's  Public Statement Policy.

In addition, a number of public statements have been written by members of ADAA's Scientific Council to address a variety of mental health issues.

For media inquiries, please contact Lise Bram: [email protected]

ADAA Public Statements

• ADAA Statement on Trauma - 2023
• SCOTUS Decision - Overturning Roe v Wade, June 24, 2022
• ADAA Stands Against Racism, June 4, 2020
• FDA Approves Fast-Acting Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Clinicians and Researchers are Cautiously Optimistic, March 6, 2019
• If Elephants Could Talk…, March 4, 2019
• Tragic Losses of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain It’s Time to Give Voice to Suicide – And Act, June 8, 2018
• PTSD, Panic, and Sexual Assault, September 26, 2018

ADAA Scientific Council Statements

• Holiday Anxiety, Frank Schneier, MD
• Ketamine, Andrew Goddard, MD
• Returning Veterans and Veteran Health, Barbara O. Rothbaum, PhD, ABPP and Andrew M. Sherrill, PhD
• Scientific and Non-Scientific Psychological Treatments, Richard Heimberg, PhD
• Sexual Victimization and Trauma, Barbara O. Rothbaum, PhD, ABPP and Carly Yasinski, PhD
• Suicide, Brandon Gibb, PhD
• Terrorism, Mark Powers, PhD
• Transportation, Jolene Jacquart, MA and Jasper Smits, PhD