Just over a week after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that faith-based organizations that meet evidence-based addiction recovery standards can apply for ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Department of Health and Human Services through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration is awarding $57.6 million to seven grant programs to assist Americans ...

A man drinking at a bar. (Photo by Darlene Alderson.) As many people can probably guess, most of us aren’t born with an addiction, so how do people become addicted to something, anyway? The Substance ...

25% of Americans (70 million people) admitted they use illicit drugs, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use. 48.7 million people nationwide struggle with substance abuse according ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were laid off in the wave of government ...

A protestor marks International Overdose Awareness Day in Manhattan last August. Overdose deaths were down in recent months, and Democrats are questioning the wisdom of changing policies that are show ...

The Statement of Task to the National Academies calls for an ad hoc committee to conduct a review of outcomes achieved by four specific programs funded by SAMHSA, as authorized in CARA. The specific ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released the results of its 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on Tuesday, which showed that nearly one in five ...

NEW YORK — A top Democrat slammed the Trump administration late Wednesday for creating “uncertainty and confusion” in cutting thousands of substance abuse and mental health grants and then abruptly ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his department will devote $100 million toward a pilot program addressing ...