Patrick J. Kennedy: “Declaring a PHE alone without a Stafford Act declaration amounts to nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs on the…”

Congress and the country have really never appropriated the necessary resources for this crisis.

Both APAs, my fellow panelist Patrick Kennedy, and the unified mental health and substance use disorder community championed the parity law in 2008, but it has failed to end discriminatory health insurance practices.

We have got to address the stigma, and we have got to put the resources behind these efforts.

the process to seek help should not be a barrier to receiving help.