Addressing The Nation’s Behavioral Health Crisis: An HHS Roadmap to Integrate Behavioral Health

Health Affairs December 2, 2022
Xavier Becerra, Andrea Palm, Rebecca L. Haffajee, January Contreras, Alison Barkoff, Dawn O'Connell, Robert Otto Valdez, Rochelle P. Walensky, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Robert M. Califf, Carole Johnson, Roselyn Tso, Lawrence A. Tabak, Rachel L. Levine, Micky Tripathi, Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Vivek H. Murthy

Mental health and substance use disorders in the United States were on the rise even before the pandemic and COVID-19 exacerbated many behavioral health conditions. In 2020, 21 percent of adults (52.9 million) reported having a mental illness in the past year and 15 percent (37.9 million) reported having a substance use disorder in the past year, with almost 7 percent of adults having both conditions. Recently released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provisional data suggests that the rate of suicides in the U.S. increased 4 percent from 2020 to 2021, after two consecutive years of decline in 2019 and 2020.

Behavioral health conditions begin early in childhood, with 1 in 6 children aged 2-8 being diagnosed with...

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