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 ...

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

In the wake of the implosion, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has shared a helpline to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Two members of Congress presented markedly different views on how to reform the nation's mental health system at a briefing here. The congressman has introduced legislation known as the ...

Jeremy Evenden, MSSA, LISW-S, and Deborah Myers, MEd, PCC-S, of the Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University are presenting three separate yet related webinars as part of ...

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 ...

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 ...