SAMHSA's anti-harm reduction “strategic priorities" arrive at a time of immense change and uncertainty about the agency's ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has unveiled a transformative $43 million funding initiative aimed at expanding recovery housing for young adults. Announced on ...

Although the chronic disease of addiction can grip people in different ways despite age, educational background or race, recovery is possible. Getting needed treatment, establishing a support system, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nation's main mental health agency is being dissolved, and folded into a new federal health agency. Some lawmakers and health care providers are concerned about the impacts. The nation's main ...