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Organizations in Idaho are calling on the state's congressional delegation to support access to health coverage and substance-use treatment for the incarcerated population. Eleven groups signed a letter supporting the Reentry Act and the Due Process Continuity of Care Act. The measures would increase access to Medicaid to up to 30 days before people leave jail or prison. ...
It's open-enrollment season for most health-care plans - meaning within the next month and a half, you can make changes to your health plan. Open enrollment starts today for more than 5 million public employees in California. Deb Reyman is the health benefits spokesperson for the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS. ...
Eleven organizations signed a letter supporting expanded Medicaid access for people in jail and prison in hopes of reducing overdose deaths.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Rep. Paul D. Tonko recently cheered the announcement that New York will receive a grant totaling $4,009,623 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) program to address the nation’s mental health crisis. “We must ensure a complete, compassionate response to the devastating […]
For years, I have watched my brother’s experience with addiction and incarceration play like a video on loop. His drug use led to stints behind bars, and with no treatment available to him inside, he would transition out with a steadfast determination to course correct onto a better path, only to find himself in the unclenching grip of opioid addiction again.