Healthday News, March 13, 2025 -The major federal agencies in charge of addiction and mental health services are facing deep employee cuts.
Material Abuse and Mental Health Service Management (SAMHSA), which has a budget of $ 7.2 billion, supervises important services such as 988 National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Opioid Addiction Program and Mental Health Subsidies Fund.
It also provides training for nonprofit organizations and state institutions and monitors federal subsidies.
Dora Dantzler-WRIGHTThose who work with the Chicago Recovery Community Union say that cuts have already hindered the operation. “We continue to work without the Fed’s update,” she said. “But we are lost.”
Reductions are part of a wide range of efforts to reduce government spending.
Last month, SAMHSA lost about 10%of its employees and employees received $ 25,000 for voluntary start.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (HHS) announced that it is reducing local offices from 10 to 4.
Mental health and addiction experts warn that reducing Samhsa’s workforce can lead to serious results.
“It is very dangerous to reduce samhsa staff without understanding the effects because there is a behavioral health crisis that affects every corner of our country. Paulton nose New York Andrea Salinas Oregon New York Times. Signed by 57 Democrats.
The work of the agency has helped to slow overdose deaths, and has reached more than 100,000 people every year in recent years. hour Reported.
Interest rates have begun to decrease, but US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Reported In September 2023 and September 2024, 87,000 people died of overdose.
Regina labelFormer acting director of the National Pharmaceutical Management Policy Office called The Cuts “Near Sympathetic”.
Labelle said, “You can reduce the number, but you also reduce your supervisory and responsibility.
Some experts are concerned that samhsa can be folded into other federal agencies or that funds can return to 2019 level despite addiction and mental health crisis.
The agency did not mention whether more dismissed, but the officials hour, “The important cooperation promoted by the local office of Samhsa continues regardless of the change of manpower, and the samhsa employee is diligently maintaining a response to partners from all over the country.”
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source: New York TimesMarch 12, 2025
