I think that's at a minimum. Honestly, when we were fighting the AIDS epidemic, which was claiming 53,000 lives, this is claiming 64,000 lives, we were spending the equivalent of $24 billion with today's dollars.
Kennedy emphasizes the need for significant federal funding to combat the opioid crisis.
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when mental health gets 0.04 percent of the CARES Act funding, it says a lot about where mental health is in this country.
Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.
I want to thank the Biden Administration. They’ve put teeth into the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.
the largest mental health treatment facility in all of our districts is our county jail.