Mental health experts say more funding is needed to address pandemic-related stresses
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
The pandemic has stressed the nation’s behavioral health infrastructure at a time when the country has seen increases in overdose deaths, suicides, and reports of anxiety and depression.Advance Local Graphic Artist
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By Sandhya Raman, CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON – Growing behavioral health needs and existing workforce inadequacies are amplifying calls for Congress to provide additional resources to address a national mental health crisis exacerbated by COVID-19, the economic recession, and social isolation.
The pandemic has stressed the nation’s behavioral health infrastructure at a time when the country has seen increases in overdose deaths, suicides, and reports of anxiety and depression.
Michael Krawitz and Jason Amatucci
To the objective observer Virginia seems to be moving very quickly with Cannabis policy reform. We would like to present four Virginianâs stories without which we would not be where we are now.
Roy Scherer has dedicated decades of his life to Cannabis policy reform after serving in the United States Air Force. Starting in the early 1970âs with Virginians for the Study of Marijuana Laws he succeeded in bringing us out of the dark ages of marijuana policy. Royâs work led to a 1978 Senate commission calling for decriminalization however it would take Roy and the many that have joined his side until 2020 to actually implement that change.
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