Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. The White House on Thursday unveiled a new effort to streamline the country’s response to its drug and alcohol epidemic, pledging to align ...

SAMHSA, a key federal agency for addiction and mental health, is facing deep staff cuts Experts worry this could weaken ...

President Donald Trump has long been adamant about fixing what he described as America's "opioid crisis," something which was a key focus of his first term as president as well as his second. The ...

A new report shows drug overdose deaths are declining in the United States, but some fear that progress could be in jeopardy as President Donald Trump proposes spending cuts to the federal agency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were laid off in the wave of government ...

The Trump administration says it wants to tackle the "addiction epidemic." But it's eliminating addiction treatment resources and access to mental healthcare.

We recently worked on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report that lays out a clear blueprint for a national prevention infrastructure for mental and behavioral ...

The country's main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more than a third of its ...

Members of Congress have expressed deep concern over reckless federal staff reductions in mental health and addiction prevention despite a crisis throughout the nation. Fifty seven members of Congress ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s health agencies will lose more than $230 million in federal grants, some of which already had been committed to programs that include crisis ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his department will devote $100 million toward a pilot program addressing ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced $100 million in new grants for homelessness and opioid abuse recovery programs as part of a nationwide effort to combat the ...