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Wednesday, June 9, 2021 One of the spillover effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increase in opioid-related deaths. These deaths overwhelmingly affect working-class Americans with limited access and resources to lifesaving drugs such as buprenorphine and naloxone. As a result, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Practice Guidelines for the Administration of Buprenorphine for Treating Opioid Use Disorder (Practice Guidelines) through a waiver of certain certification requirements prescribed by law. The Practice Guidelines remove a longtime prerequ...

email article WASHINGTON -- The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a Behavioral Health Coordinating Council to address the mental health and substance use disorders that have increased during the pandemic, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, MD, said Tuesday. The council's primary goal "is to facilitate collaborative, innovative, transparent, equitable, action-oriented approaches to addressing the nation's behavioral health needs," Levine said on a Zoom call with reporters. "This council will be comprised of senior leadership from across HHS operating...

HHS Secretary Becerra forms new Behavioral Health Coordinating Council The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is distributing $3 billion in American Rescue Plan funding — the largest aggregate amount of funding to date for its mental health and substance use block grant programs. The Community Mental Health Services Block Grant (MHBG) Program and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Program (SABG) will disperse $1.5 billion each to states and territories (with the latter also awarding money to a tribe). This follows the March announcement of s...

Waismann Method® Opioid Treatment Specialists and Rapid Detox Center Waismann Method® applauds the federal effort to expand access to life-saving treatments amidst over 90,000 fatal opioid overdoses between September 2019 & 2020. We need to go beyond providing medical treatment... This includes increasing access to mental health treatment and fighting the stigma associated with substance abuse and mental illness.” — Clare Waismann, RAS/SUDCC, Waismann Method® and Domus Retreat® founder BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, May 4, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The opioid epidemic touc...

As Opioid Deaths Surge, Biden Team Moves To Make Buprenorphine Treatment Mainstream