National Council for Behavioral Health

William Glanz

Senior Writer, National Council for Behavioral Health

One section tucked in the American Rescue Plan – President Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package that he signed into law on March 11 – gave harm reduction organizations more optimism than they’ve had in years that opportunities would replace obstacles.

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William Glanz

Senior Writer, National Council for Behavioral Health

Hundreds of harm reduction advocates throughout the nation are working tirelessly to provide supplies and educate people about harm reduction in the midst of a devastating overdose crisis and a pandemic that has contributed to overdose deaths.

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William Glanz

Senior Writer, National Council for Behavioral Health

To address the nation’s overdose crisis the CDC has initiated a new program, administered by the National Council for Behavioral Health, to promote harm reduction strategies through a series of 16 grants to organizations across the country with harm reduction initiatives.

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Shannon Mace, JD, MPH

Senior Practice Improvement Advisor for the National Council for Behavioral Health

As communities across the U.S. face entirely new experiences of social isolation, grief, economic instability and diminished hope about the future, overdose incidents are steadily increasing.

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Vitka Eisen, MSW, Ed.D.

President and CEO HealthRIGHT 360, Board Member, National Council for Behavioral Health

More than 30 years ago, long past the realization that it was time for me to stop injecting heroin, I turned to the warm, welcoming staff at San Francisco’s Haight Asbury Free Clinics. They had already seen me through multiple unsuccessful attempts, yet I felt no judgment, heard no dogma and wasn’t ever threatened with […]

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