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 ...

A coalition of executives from more than a dozen organizations dedicated to prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders said it was “deeply concerned” about the potential ...

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 ...

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

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.

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 ...

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. ...

More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this month as part of the government-wide cuts to recently hired federal workers ...