Behavioral Health Business December 4, 2023
Eric Frieman’s brother is an Army infantry officer deployed twice into combat zones, who lost more of his soldiers to suicide and behavioral health-related challenges than combat. Frieman’s own best friend died from a drug overdose.
In these instances, Frieman told Behavioral Health Business that he saw people “not able to get the help that they needed because it was too expensive, or they had a mental health issue and a substance use issue and their providers could only treat one or another.”
Frieman vowed to do something about this.
Following a career as an investment banker who advised on health care deals, Frieman founded outpatient behavioral health care provider Forge Health in 2016, thanks in part to seed money...