Behavioral Health Business March 20, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration’s proposed budget for 2025 includes substantial funding to support access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and prevention.
The proposed budget aims to build upon these efforts by allocating $21.8 billion to combat the surge in overdose deaths nationwide.
The budget allocates substantial resources specifically to combat the opioid overdose crisis, building upon the administration’s previous initiatives, such as encouraging housing providers to stock opioid overdose reversal drugs like Narcan.
“This budget builds on the largest investment in behavioral health in a generation,” Xavier Becerra, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told Congress.
A fact sheet released by the White House about the budget touted Biden’s elimination of the X-Waiver, which required prescribers...
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