SAMHSA’s work is crucial to suicide and drug overdose prevention and mental health care. It may fall victim to changes to public health infrastructure.

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are asking what we can learn to better prepare for future health crises.

California mental health providers are reporting receiving more calls from people in crisis since the launch of the 988 hotline on July 15, 2022. Courtesy Getty Images. California made it easier ...

But recent federal funding and staffing cuts undermine the future of the 988 program and threaten to erase progress made in ...

NEW MEXICO HAS THE HIGHEST MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES. THAT’S ACCORDING ... AND THE NEW MEXICO CRISIS HOTLINE PROVIDES FREE SUPPORT. JU New Mexico's young ...

People who had medical debt in 2023 were nearly five times more likely to skip mental health care in the following year due to cost compared to those without such debt, according to a study led by ...

The hotline is available 24/7 to those living in all U.S. states and territories and gives individuals who are experiencing ...

Senate Bill 43 expands who can be placed on involuntary psychiatric holds, but some families are still waiting to see its ...

That jump reflected the fact that the nation is mired in both a mental health crisis and an opioid overdose ... We have seen progress in states with both Democratic and Republican leadership ...

Daniel’s standoff with law enforcement and eventual suicide also illustrates a lesser-known problem in rural mental health: the prevalence of crisis ... margins in states like Texas that ...

Services at Reno’s only dedicated mental health crisis center have been suspended ... said there's an ongoing federal lawsuit by multiple states against COVID-era grants being rescinded.