Ten years ago, Nancy Winmill’s son survived an opioid overdose. In her search for support, she found almost nothing available in her Burley, Idaho community. “I had no idea what to do or where to go.

People in the United States are in the midst of an ongoing opioid epidemic and a wave of mental health problems. So funding and staff cuts to a federal agency that supports mental health care, suicide ...

Most Americans have never heard of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, better known as SAMHSA. In fact, we hope you have never found yourself or a loved one in a position to ...

The nation's main mental health agency is being dissolved, and folded into a new federal health agency. Some lawmakers and health care providers are concerned about the impacts. The nation's main ...

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.

More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this month as part of the government-wide cuts to recently hired federal workers ...

The country's main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more than a third of its ...

The Recovery Alliance Duluth team at their annual recovery month event where the theme was spread sunshine not stigma. (Image courtesy of Recovery Alliance Duluth) Ten years ago, Nancy Winmill’s son ...

The nation’s main mental health agency is being dissolved, and it’s already lost roughly a third of its staff. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, or SAMHSA, is being folded into ...