What this does is reduce the profile and priority of mental health and addictions in America”: The former director of SAMHSA ...

A small federal agency tasked with mitigating the impact of addiction is facing deep cuts on multiple fronts, threatening to roll back years of lifesaving work.

SAMHSA’s work is crucial to suicide and drug overdose prevention and mental health care. It may fall victim to changes to public health infrastructure.

Employees of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the federal agency responsible for leading the nation’s response to the mental health and drug overdose crises, ...

"These programs are having to make very difficult decisions about how to move forward," said Gabrielle de la Guéronnière of ...

A little-known federal agency that touches the lives of people across the United States by funding the 988 crisis line, naloxone distribution and addiction treatment may be weakened and possibly ...

Wildes is the former assistant secretary for human services and mental hygiene for New York state. More than $8.1 billion. A little over a year ago, that’s how much the federal Substance Abuse ...

Trump administration officials announced this week that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would take back $11.4 billion in COVID-related funds.

According to Executive Director of Healthy Minds Policy Initiative Zack Stoycoff, Oklahoma has a lot to lose. The nonprofit ...

Emotionally overwhelmed, an Indiana woman dialed a mental health hotline. She didn’t find the help she was looking for and ...

The agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), currently commands an $8 billion budget and employs over 700 staff. It is responsible for services including the ...

But over the last few weeks, Valerie Vidal, CEO and president of Meta House, said her team has experienced a shift in the ...