SAMHSA, amid continuing crises in mental health and addiction, has been hit by heavy cuts in personnel and funding under ...

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 ...

More than 4,000 federal workers have received "reduction in force" notices since the federal government shutdown began. Among the agencies hit is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PCPs depend on resources from AHRQ and SAMHSA to provide preventive and mental health care. Experts gave Healio ...

Close to 1 in 3 adolescents in the U.S. received mental health treatment in 2023, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reported Tuesday, which works out to around 8.3 million ...

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 and ...

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 Miriam ...

The restructuring plans announced by HHS last week included folding five offices into one entity: the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Health Resources and ...

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 ...