The Trump administration underlines a “clear shift away from harm reduction and practices” that it says facilitates illegal ...

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

The US national crisis hotline, 988, was contacted over 18 million times since its launch in July of 2022; however, despite ...

SAMHSA has become a catalyst for integration, evidence-based care, and local empowerment. And if its core functions are diluted or lost, the consequences will ripple through communities in ways that ...

Wildes is the former assistant secretary for human services and mental hygiene for New York state. More than $8.1 billion. A little over a year ago, that’s how much the federal Substance Abuse and ...

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 ...

In a letter to states and other grant recipients, the Trump administration says the strips encourage drug use.

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 ...

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 ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and the Office of the National ...