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Ensuring access to mental health and addiction treatment and recovery services could not be more urgent or important than at this time. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that symptoms of anxiety disorder were approximately three times higher and prevalence of depression about four times higher among adults during the second quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.
Meanwhile, overdoses have spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic with more than 40 states reporting increased opioid-related deaths, and an overall increase in overdoses of 18% between May of 2019 and 2020. At the same time, suicide rates have continued to rise, up 35% between 1999 and 2018, with early indications of additional increases in suicides more recently.
Our Covid-19 webpage is designed to help NABH members access important and applicable resources as they navigate the Covid-19 pandemic.
Removing Barriers to Care
Congress should eliminate outdated federal rules blocking access to cost-effective treatments.
Combating the SUD Crisis
Congress should increase access to substance use disorder treatment.
Expanding the Behavioral Health Workforce
Congress should expand the mental health and substance use disorder workforce.
CEO Update
CEO Update 191
House Ways and Means Committee Hearing Examines U.S. Child Welfare System and RTFs The House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday held a hearing about strengthening America’s child welfare system and protecting America’s children through reauthorizing Title IV-B, a child and youth foster-care program. Although committee members focused primarily on improving the nation’s child foster care system, ...Read moreCEO Update 190
House Ways & Means Committee to Host Hearing Next Week on Strengthening Child Welfare The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to conduct a hearing next Wednesday, June 26 focused on strengthening child welfare by reauthorizing Title IV-B, a program serving children and youth in foster care. Policymakers are expected to review youth Residential Treatment ...Read moreCEO Update 189
Senate Finance Committee Holds Hearing and Releases Report on Youth RTFs In conjunction with a hearing Wednesday, the Senate Finance Committee released Warehouse of Neglect: How Taxpayers Are Funding Systemic Abuse in Youth Residential Treatment Facilities, a partisan report that cites limitations and problems at youth RTFs and fails to recognize the critical care, treatment, and ...Read moreCEO Update 188
Senate Democrats Pressure Biden Administration to Complete Final Parity Rule A group of Senate Democrats is pressuring the Biden administration to complete and release its final rule on the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act’s requirements. In a letter to the leaders of HHS, the Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S. Labor Department’s Employee Benefits and ...Read more
The National Association for Behavioral Healthcare, are the people on the front lines of this fight…
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden
Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
