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Over the past decade, and especially in the last two years, there has been growing awareness among both the public and policymakers about the devastating effects and costs of addiction in the United States. The Surgeon General released a landmark report on Facing Addiction in America (2016) and the President’s…

Read the impact report to see how CCBHCs are changing the mental health and substance use care landscape.

SAMHSA, in co-sponsorship with NASMHPD, convened with national partners across critical working sectors involved with 988 to help advance 988 planning efforts at the state and local levels. These national-level meetings brought together states, territories, and tribes; crisis contact centers; public safety answering points; and behavioral health providers to exchange…

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing developed a toolkit to empower mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) organizations to claim their role as the expert authority on generally accepted standards of care. This toolkit provides a compelling argument for upholding generally accepted standards of care and practical tools for…

Our new white paper discusses health disparities that exist for B/AAs seeking specialty mental health and substance use treatment services.

This document is meant as a guide to the mental health and substance use disorder provisions included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. At the top, we provide high level bullets designed to give you a brief overview.

Dear President Biden:Thank you for your administration’s tireless efforts to save lives during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. While the undersigned organizations sincerely appreciate and understand that focus, we are very concerned that a nominee for director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) remains unnamed.