The Trump administration is overhauling federal addiction policy and moving away from harm reduction strategies through steps ...

After rising exponentially since 1979, overdose rates have finally begun to decline, falling more than 29 percent since 2022.

The Addiction Science Defense Network in a new report criticized several reforms at the Health and Human Services Department, ...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration plans to remove next month its online tool for locating public access to a common treatment for individuals with an opioid use disorder.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

del Vecchio is former SAMHSA executive officer. At the age of 23, after years of mental health problems, addictions, and trauma, I found myself on a Philadelphia subway platform ready to end my life.

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 ...

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 ...