The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced last week that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | The HHS secretary announced over $700 million spread across various Substance Abuse and ...

RFK Jr. presents funding intended to address mental illness and addiction, particularly among homeless people.

The pandemic exacerbated substance misuse and overdose deaths, leading the agency to decide on the final rule, expanding access to opioid treatment programs. A new final rule allows some providers to ...

The small federal agency tasked with easing the nation’s profound struggles with mental illness and drug addiction is in crisis itself: Hundreds of employees have left its staff of about 900, and its ...

del Vecchio is former SAMHSA executive officer. At the age of 23, after years of mental health problems, addictions, and trauma, I found myself on a Philadelphia subway platform ready to end my life.

WASHINGTON -- Two members of Congress presented markedly different views on how to reform the nation's mental health system at a briefing here. The congressman has introduced legislation known as the ...

After a tense day of confusion and backroom negotiations, the Trump administration moved Wednesday night to restore roughly $2 billion in federal grant money for mental health and addiction programs ...

Representatives Murphy, DeGette, and other members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for inviting me to testify today. I am a psychiatrist trained at Yale University School of Medicine. I served on the ...

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