"But accomplishing such goals will be difficult in the face of the administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees, cancellation of research and community grants, attacks on organizations and practices that serve people who use drugs, and cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people that is the largest payer for addiction and mental health care nationwide."

https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/trump-national-drug-control-strategy-addiction-treatment-funding-cuts/

#PublicHealth #MentalHealth #opioids #SubstanceUse #medicaid #SAMHSA

"The policy shift highlights the growing tension over harm reduction, a drug policy approach introduced more than 25 years ago by grass-roots groups and later adopted by mainstream addiction medicine, and, finally, the Biden administration. The harm-reduction model maintains that interventions that make drug use safer have lifesaving merits, including the possibility that users might seek treatment."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/health/trump-fentanyl-test-strips.html

#PublicHealth #SubstanceUse #HarmReduction #SAMHSA #fentanyl

Last week, the Trump administration cancelled >$2B in mental health + addiction treatment funds. Only massive, rapid pushback caused them to reverse the decision.

But these programs remain at risk. So Grant Witness is now tracking SAMHSA
grants. What found so far:

https://grant-witness.us/posts/2026-01-16_samhsa-jan-terminations/

#PublicHealth #MentalHealth #Addiction #SAMHSA

Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA.

We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness:

https://grant-witness.us/submit-samhsa.html

If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677104/trump-administration-letter-terminating-addiction-mental-health-grants

#SAMHSA #PublicHealth

#SAMHSA is “responsible for overseeing the new 988 suicide prevention hotline. It also gives out billions in grants for mental health and addiction services. It was created in 1992 through bipartisan legislation signed by then-President George H.W. Bush (a Republican).”

#USA #US #USgov #USpol #trump #rfkjr #health #MentalHealth #HHS
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Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5571948/trump-mental-health-substance-abuse-cdc-layoffs-jobs