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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has issued a request for information (RFI) seeking public ...

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.

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 ...

The nation’s drug overdose crisis is finally beginning to slow down. After it reached a peak during the years of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been substantial declines in overdose deaths over the ...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 13: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. ...