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The 21st Century Cures Act (§§ 8001 et seq.) replaced ADMS with the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (42 U.S.C. § 300x-21 et seq) and the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (42 U.S.C. § 300x et seq).
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA; pronounced / ˈ s æ m s ə /) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.SAMHSA is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and the cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Services for mental health disorders provide treatment, support, or advocacy to people who have psychiatric illnesses. These may include medical, behavioral, social, and legal services. Medical services are usually provided by mental health experts like psychiatrists, psychologists, and behavioral health counselors in a hospital or outpatient ...
1962: Vaccination Assistance PL 87-868; 1963: Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act/Community Mental Health Centers Act PL 88-164; 1964: Nurse Training Act PL 88-581; 1965: Community Health Services and Facilities Act PL 89-109; 1965: Medicare section of the Social Security Act PL 89-97; 1965: Mental Health Centers Act Amendments PL 89-105
Community Mental Health Act; Other short titles: Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963: Long title: An Act to provide assistance in combating mental retardation through grants for construction of research centers and grants for facilities for the mentally retarded and assistance in improving mental health through grants for construction of community ...
D.A.R.E. and many other programs still rely on police to help deliver their antidrug message. But critics of this approach say kids in many of the communities that face the biggest dangers from ...