WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 13: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks after being sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. ...

When Mental Health America established Mental Health Awareness Month in 1949, few could have predicted its profound impact. What began as a modest educational effort has evolved into a national ...

More than 4,000 federal workers have received "reduction in force" notices since the federal government shutdown began. Among the agencies hit is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) debuted a new public health awareness campaign this week focused on educating teenagers and the people around them about substance use and mental ...

del Vecchio is former SAMHSA executive officer. At the age of 23, after years of mental health problems, addictions, and trauma, I found myself on a Philadelphia subway platform ready to end my life.

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Most people heard about the horrific double homicides. And last Tuesday, Nick Reiner, 32, was formally charged with two ...

The Trump administration’s plan to revamp the entire Health and Human Services Department, which Congress has rejected, has nevertheless led to the gutting of a 33-year-old agency that had been ...

The Trump administration revealed in a court filing that it does not intend to enforce a key regulation on mental health parity while it gives the rule another look. In the final months of the Biden ...