About 37% of Americans live in areas where there is a shortage of mental health providers. By 2025, the U.S. will be short about 31,000 full-time equivalent mental health practitioners, said ...

In 2020, SAMHSA issued historic exemptions that allowed states to let patients take home more doses of methadone, with 43 states and D.C. deciding to do so, the final rule document said.

SAMHSA reports that more people received treatment in 2023 compared to 2022. Twenty-three percent of adults — 59.2 million people —received mental health treatment in 2023, an increase of 3.4 ...

SAMHSA has become a catalyst for integration, evidence-based care, and local empowerment. And if its core functions are diluted or lost, the consequences will ripple through communities in ways ...

SAMHSA’s staff is small compared with other HHS agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration. By 2024, in the wake of an opioid crisis ...

Employee satisfaction scores began to recover in 2020, reaching a record high of 81.5 by 2023, above the average. The size of the SAMHSA workforce also grew to 633 by 2023.