HHS Press Office December 2, 2022
Our nation faces an unprecedented behavioral health crisis among people of all ages.
In his first State of the Union, the President outlined a bold national strategy to prevent, treat, and provide long term recovery supports for mental illness and substance use disorders (M/SUD). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a leadership role to implement and advance the President’s Strategy.
Over the course of the pandemic, self-reported symptoms of anxiety have increased , as has the rate of overdose deaths. Despite this apparent increased need for M/SUD care, use of such services dropped sharply at the beginning of the pandemic and has been slower to rebound to pre-pandemic levels than other types of health care. In...
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