Mental Illness & Addiction Prevention & Treatment Critical to U.S. Health Reform

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Feature Editor’s note: the mental health and addiction treatment communities came together to agree that national health care reform must ensure that prevention and treatment for mental illness and addiction are priority. On May 26, 2009, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a consensus statement with nine core principles on the importance of including prevention and treatment for behavioral health disorders. The statement is based on input from hundreds of addiction treatment and mental health service stakeholder and consumer groups. SAMHSA facilitated the input process and assisted the development . . .