When President Donald Trump’s administration began its shakeup of the federal government, purging online data sets and ...

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 ...

Several COVID-era flexibilities relied upon by opioid treatment programs and their hundreds of thousands of patients will become permanent later this year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health ...

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 ...

The US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has reversed its decision to terminate nearly $2 billion in grants to thousands of mental health and addiction treatment ...

SAMHSA’s mandatory guidelines have served as the blueprint for many state drug testing laws and policies since 1988. But new methods for oral fluids testing will mean big changes. Workplace drug ...

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