{"id":12408,"date":"2025-03-12T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/federal-agency-dedicated-to-mental-illness-and-addiction-faces-huge-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:13:00","slug":"federal-agency-dedicated-to-mental-illness-and-addiction-faces-huge-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/federal-agency-dedicated-to-mental-illness-and-addiction-faces-huge-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Every day, Dora Dantzler-Wright and her colleagues distribute overdose reversal drugs on the streets of Chicago. They hold training sessions on using them and help people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction return to their jobs and families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They work closely with the federal government through an agency that monitors their productivity, connects them with other like-minded groups and dispenses critical funds that keep their work going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But over the last few weeks, Ms. Wright\u2019s phone calls and emails to Washington have gone unanswered. Federal advisers from the agency\u2019s local office \u2014 who supervise her group, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagorecovery.org\/our-impact\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Recovering Communities Coalition<\/a>, as well as addiction programs throughout six Midwestern states and 34 tribes \u2014 are gone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe just continue to do the work without any updates from the feds at all,\u201d Ms. Wright said. \u201cBut we\u2019re lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By the end of this week, the staff of the agency, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration<\/a>, could be cut by 50 percent, according to senior staff members at the agency and congressional aides who attended briefings by Trump officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With just under 900 employees and a budget of $7.2 billion for large state grants and individual nonprofits that address addiction and mental illness, SAMHSA (pronounced SAM-sah) is relatively small. But it addresses two of the nation\u2019s most urgent health problems and has generally had bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The agency\u2019s broad mandate includes overseeing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/?utm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">988<\/a>, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which fields millions of calls through state offices; regulating outpatient clinics that dispense opioid treatment drugs such as methadone; directing funds to drug courts (also called \u201ctreatment courts\u201d); and producing nationwide <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/data\/data-we-collect\/nsduh-national-survey-drug-use-and-health\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">annual surveys<\/a> of substance use and mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It provides best-practice training and resources for hundreds of nonprofits and state agencies, and helps establish <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/grants\/grant-announcements\/ti-23-020\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">centers<\/a> that provide opioid addiction prevention, treatment and social services. It is also a federal watchdog that closely monitors the spending of taxpayer-funded grants for mental health and addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Both President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health secretary, whose portfolio includes SAMHSA, have been outspoken about addressing the country\u2019s drug crises. Mr. Trump has invoked overdose fatalities as a rationale for imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Mr. Kennedy has often discussed his ongoing recovery from heroin addiction. During his presidential campaign, he produced a documentary about the impact of addiction in the United States that also explored different <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/18\/health\/rfk-addiction-farms.html\" title=\"\">treatment<\/a> options.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the rates of U.S. overdose fatalities remain high, they have been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/health\/overdose-deaths-decline-drug-supply.html\" title=\"\">declining<\/a> consistently since 2023. Many drug policy experts say SAMHSA is the federal agency most directly responsible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCutting SAMHSA employees without understanding the impact is extremely dangerous, given the behavioral health crises impacting every corner of our nation,\u201d Representatives Paul D. Tonko of New York and Andrea Salinas of Oregon wrote in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/tonko.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/samhsa_cuts_letter_03-06-2025.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> to Mr. Kennedy, signed by 57 Democratic House members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reductions in staff, they argued, could lead to a surge in relapse rates, a strain on the health care system and poorer health outcomes overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked about the pending cuts, a spokeswoman for SAMHSA replied: \u201cThe important collaboration facilitated by SAMHSA\u2019s regional offices continues, regardless of personnel changes, and SAMHSA staff remain diligently responsive to partners around the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/ogc-reorganization-effort.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that it was reducing its number of regional offices, which house agencies that include SAMHSA, from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/about\/regional-offices\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">10<\/a> to four.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Proposals to shrink staff sizes across government departments are due Thursday. In the last month, SAMHSA\u2019s staff was reduced by roughly 10 percent through layoffs of workers in their probationary period, a designation that included people recently promoted to new positions. Last weekend, the agency\u2019s employees and other personnel overseen by Mr. Kennedy received emails offering $25,000 to those who left their jobs by this Friday, characterized as a \u201cvoluntary separation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In interviews, a dozen current and former SAMHSA employees, including executives, said the threat posed by layoffs and policy shifts is beginning to be felt at sites everywhere, from the heart of troubled city neighborhoods to rural outposts. Some newer SAMHSA projects scarcely underway are in jeopardy, like one to map Chicago housing projects to better distribute the lifesaving overdose medication naloxone, and others to establish systems to speedily relay suicide intervention calls to on-the-ground response teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They said it was unlikely that funding for centers focused on treating the mental health or substance use disorders of specific populations, such as Black and L.G.B.T.Q. communities, would be reauthorized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Regina LaBelle, the former acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, called the staff cuts \u201c shortsighted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt might reduce numbers, but it also reduces oversight and accountability,\u201d she said, by hindering the agency\u2019s ability to monitor grant funds and collect behavioral health data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the Biden administration, the agency\u2019s budget and staff grew substantially, a development that mental health and addiction experts described as an attempt to make up for persistent underfunding. In 2019, just before the onset of the pandemic, SAMHSA had about 490 full-time staff members and a budget of roughly $5.5 billion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 70,630 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/health\/overdose-deaths-decline-drug-supply.html\" title=\"\">overdose deaths that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In March 2020, the pandemic bore down. Over the next three years, annual overdose fatalities soared to well over 100,000. Mental health problems surged, including deaths by suicide. The increases to SAMHSA\u2019s budget had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/guthrie.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=387906\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bipartisan<\/a> support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now there is widespread talk that the Trump administration may fold SAMHSA into another health agency or return staff numbers and grant funds to 2019 levels, even though rates of overdose deaths remain significantly higher than in 2019. According to the most recent <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2025\/2025-cdc-reports-decline-in-us-drug-overdose-deaths.html#\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">C.D.C. update,<\/a> between September 2023 and September 2024, roughly 87,000 people died of drug overdoses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/health\/federal-cuts-substance-abuse-mental-health.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, Dora Dantzler-Wright and her colleagues distribute overdose reversal drugs on the streets of Chicago. 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