A War on Drugs where the enemy was far too often young black men rather than the drugs devastating our communities.
Editor's note · Context
Critiques the focus of the War on Drugs on racial minorities.
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We need substantive systemic reform. We need legal mental health parity, like what my cousin Patrick has envisioned.
What your bill is calling for is the ability for that to be transparent, to get out, so that State legislatures can start to enact similar laws like that to help provide some accountability.
In other parlance, it is countercyclical, right? When you have an economic downturn, Medicaid enrollment increases, right?
So one of the things that the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Treatment Act, along with subsequent parity laws, did was to ensure that plans provide information on how they are making mental and behavioral health parity decisions.





