The federal government’s recent repeal of its special licensing requirement for providers to prescribe buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder (the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Students at local technical and vocational schools got the chance to practice CPR, naloxone ...

Members of Congress have expressed deep concern over reckless federal staff reductions in mental health and addiction prevention despite a crisis throughout the nation. Fifty seven members of Congress ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recognizes Substance Use Prevention Month every October to increase public awareness of the dangers of substance use and its ...

From Appendix C, about funding for prevention of substance use disorder (SUD) ($1.81 billion): “Approximately 80 percent of the $1.8 billion in prevention spending was for prevention delivered by HHS, ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Department of Health and Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration is awarding $57.6 million to seven grant programs to assist Americans ...

REDEVELOPMENT PLAN. TODAY’S THE LAST DAY OF NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH, BUT LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY RAISING AWARENESS AND BATTLING THE STIGMA IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD CONTINUE ALL ...