Addressing suicide and mental illness needs to go beyond treating individual minds to broader social programs and policies.

As overdose deaths continue to decline nationwide, advocates say one federal decision could put that progress at risk. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, known as SAMHSA, p ...

Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant), the nonprofit administrator of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (988 Lifeline), announced today that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

The Trump administration is overhauling federal addiction policy and moving away from harm reduction strategies through steps ...

Contradictory policies that gut harm reduction programs while supporting naloxone access are confusing experts Within just a few weeks, the Trump administration has proposed multiple contradictory ...

Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs for dangerous contaminants, including fentanyl and xylazine.

Suggested Citation: "6 Funding for Prevention of Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral (MEB) Disorders." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Blueprint for a National ...

ABSTRACT: Substance use disorders (SUDs) are markedly overrepresented in correctional populations and reflect the convergence of neurobiological vulnerability, trauma exposure, psychiatric comorbidity ...

ONDCP, SAMHSA and HUD Convene National Experts to Establish a Toolkit to Treat Addiction among Homeless Individuals. In support of President Trump’s Executive Order on Ending Crime and Disorder on ...

Alsan is the director of the Health Inequality Lab and the Annie and Ned Lamont professor of international studies in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Parekh is the chief health ...

SAMHSA may be little known to the general public, but its work touches millions of lives. Weakening it when the nation is finally turning the corner on the overdose crisis is a risk we cannot afford ...

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