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Every day, Dora Dantzler-Wright and her colleagues distribute an overdose reversal in the streets of Chicago. They organize training sessions on their use and help people to cover drug addiction and alcohol dependence at work and their families.

They work in close collaboration with the federal government through an agency that monitors their productivity, links them to other groups sharing the same ideas and provides critical funds that maintain their work.

But in recent weeks, Ms. Wright’s telephone calls and emails in Washington have remained unanswered. Federal advisers of the local office of the agency – who oversee its group, the Chicago Recomering Communities CoalitionAs well as dependent programs in six Midwest states and 34 tribes – have disappeared.

“We continue to do the work without any update of the federals,” said Ms. Wright. “But we are lost.”

At the end of this week, agency staff, Administration of drug addiction and mental health servicescould be reduced by 50%, according to senior executives from the agency and aid from the congress who attended briefings by Trump officials.

With just under 900 employees and a budget of $ 7.2 billion for major state subsidies and individual non-profit organizations which deal with dependence and mental illness, Samhsa (pronounced Sam-Sah) is relatively low. But it addresses two of the country’s most urgent health problems and has generally had bipartite support.

The broadcasting of the agency includes supervision 988National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which organizes millions of calls through state office; regulate ambulatory clinics that provide drug treatment drugs such as methadone; Direct funds to drug courts (also called “processing courts”); and produce nationally Annual surveys consumption of mental health substances and problems.

It offers better training and resources for hundreds of non -profit and state organizations, and helps to establish centers which provide the prevention, treatment and social services of dependence on opioids. It is also a federal guard dog who closely monitors the expenses of subsidies funded by taxpayers for mental health and dependence.

President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Federal Health Secretary, whose portfolio includes Samhsa, struck himself to fight against the country’s drug attacks. Trump invoked the deaths of overdose as justification to impose prices in Canada, Mexico and China. Mr. Kennedy has often discussed his recovery in the process of dependence on heroin. During his presidential campaign, he produced a documentary on the impact of dependence in the United States which also explored different treatment Options.

While American overdose death rates remain high, they were declining Since 2023. Many drugs in drugs have said that Samhsa is the most directly responsible federal agency.

“Cutting Samhsa employees without understanding the impact is extremely dangerous, given behavioral health crises having an impact letter to Mr. Kennedy, signed by 57 members of the Democrat Chamber.

Staff discounts, they have argued, could lead to an increase in relapse rates, pressure on the health system and health results overall.

Asked about the pending cuts, a spokesperson for Samhsa replied: “The significant collaboration facilitated by the regional offices of Samhsa continues, regardless of the changes of staff, and the Samhsa staff remain deepeningly sensitive to the partners of the country.”

Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Social Services announcement that this reduced its number of regional offices, which house agencies that include Samhsa, from 10 At four.

Proposals aimed at reducing the size of the staff between the ministries are due on Thursday. During the last month, Samhsa staff were reduced by around 10% thanks to workers’ layoffs in their probation period, an appointment that included people recently promoted to new positions. Last weekend, agency employees and other staff members supervised by Mr. Kennedy received emails offering $ 25,000 to those who left their jobs this Friday, characterized as a “voluntary separation”.

In interviews, a dozen current and former employees of Samhsa, including managers, said that the threat posed by dismissals and politics changes begins to feel in sites everywhere, from the heart of the city’s districts in difficulty to rural outposts. Certain new Samhsa projects in progress are barely in danger, such as one to map Chicago housing projects to better distribute drugs on naloxone’s rescue, and others to establish systems to quickly relay suicide intervention calls to response teams on the ground.

They said it was unlikely that the financing of centers focused on the treatment of mental health disorders or the consumption of substances of specific populations, such as black communities and LGBTQ, would be renetized.

Regina Labelle, the former interim director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, described the “Myope” staff reductions.

“This could reduce figures, but it also reduces surveillance and responsibility,” she said, hindering the agency’s ability to monitor grant funds and collect behavioral health data.

During the Biden administration, the agency’s budget and staff increased substantially, a development that mental health experts and drug addiction described as an attempted compensation for persistent under-funding. In 2019, just before the start of the pandemic, Samhsa had around 490 full -time staff members and a budget of around 5.5 billion dollars. According to the centers for disease control and prevention, there were 70,630 Death by overdose that year.

In March 2020, the pandemic extended. Over the next three years, annual deaths on overdoses have climbed more than 100,000. Mental health problems have increased, including suicide deaths. The increases in the Samhsa budget had biparti support.

Now, there are general speeches that the Trump administration can fold Samhsa back into another health agency or return staff members and grant funds at 2019 levels, even if overdose death rates remain significantly higher in 2019. According to the most recent CDC update, Between September 2023 and September 2024, around 87,000 people died of drug overdoses.

Every day, Dora Dantzler-Wright and her colleagues distribute an overdose reversal in the streets of Chicago. They organize training sessions on their use and help people to cover drug addiction and alcohol dependence at work and their families.

They work in close collaboration with the federal government through an agency that monitors their productivity, links them to other groups sharing the same ideas and provides critical funds that maintain their work.

But in recent weeks, Ms. Wright’s telephone calls and emails in Washington have remained unanswered. Federal advisers of the local office of the agency – who oversee its group, the Chicago Recomering Communities CoalitionAs well as dependent programs in six Midwest states and 34 tribes – have disappeared.

“We continue to do the work without any update of the federals,” said Ms. Wright. “But we are lost.”

At the end of this week, agency staff, Administration of drug addiction and mental health servicescould be reduced by 50%, according to senior executives from the agency and aid from the congress who attended briefings by Trump officials.

With just under 900 employees and a budget of $ 7.2 billion for major state subsidies and individual non-profit organizations which deal with dependence and mental illness, Samhsa (pronounced Sam-Sah) is relatively low. But it addresses two of the country’s most urgent health problems and has generally had bipartite support.

The broadcasting of the agency includes supervision 988National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which organizes millions of calls through state office; regulate ambulatory clinics that provide drug treatment drugs such as methadone; Direct funds to drug courts (also called “processing courts”); and produce nationally Annual surveys consumption of mental health substances and problems.

It offers better training and resources for hundreds of non -profit and state organizations, and helps to establish centers which provide the prevention, treatment and social services of dependence on opioids. It is also a federal guard dog who closely monitors the expenses of subsidies funded by taxpayers for mental health and dependence.

President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Federal Health Secretary, whose portfolio includes Samhsa, struck himself to fight against the country’s drug attacks. Trump invoked the deaths of overdose as justification to impose prices in Canada, Mexico and China. Mr. Kennedy has often discussed his recovery in the process of dependence on heroin. During his presidential campaign, he produced a documentary on the impact of dependence in the United States which also explored different treatment Options.

While American overdose death rates remain high, they were declining Since 2023. Many drugs in drugs have said that Samhsa is the most directly responsible federal agency.

“Cutting Samhsa employees without understanding the impact is extremely dangerous, given behavioral health crises having an impact letter to Mr. Kennedy, signed by 57 members of the Democrat Chamber.

Staff discounts, they have argued, could lead to an increase in relapse rates, pressure on the health system and health results overall.

Asked about the pending cuts, a spokesperson for Samhsa replied: “The significant collaboration facilitated by the regional offices of Samhsa continues, regardless of the changes of staff, and the Samhsa staff remain deepeningly sensitive to the partners of the country.”

Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Social Services announcement that this reduced its number of regional offices, which house agencies that include Samhsa, from 10 At four.

Proposals aimed at reducing the size of the staff between the ministries are due on Thursday. During the last month, Samhsa staff were reduced by around 10% thanks to workers’ layoffs in their probation period, an appointment that included people recently promoted to new positions. Last weekend, agency employees and other staff members supervised by Mr. Kennedy received emails offering $ 25,000 to those who left their jobs this Friday, characterized as a “voluntary separation”.

In interviews, a dozen current and former employees of Samhsa, including managers, said that the threat posed by dismissals and politics changes begins to feel in sites everywhere, from the heart of the city’s districts in difficulty to rural outposts. Certain new Samhsa projects in progress are barely in danger, such as one to map Chicago housing projects to better distribute drugs on naloxone’s rescue, and others to establish systems to quickly relay suicide intervention calls to response teams on the ground.

They said it was unlikely that the financing of centers focused on the treatment of mental health disorders or the consumption of substances of specific populations, such as black communities and LGBTQ, would be renetized.

Regina Labelle, the former interim director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, described the “Myope” staff reductions.

“This could reduce figures, but it also reduces surveillance and responsibility,” she said, hindering the agency’s ability to monitor grant funds and collect behavioral health data.

During the Biden administration, the agency’s budget and staff increased substantially, a development that mental health experts and drug addiction described as an attempted compensation for persistent under-funding. In 2019, just before the start of the pandemic, Samhsa had around 490 full -time staff members and a budget of around 5.5 billion dollars. According to the centers for disease control and prevention, there were 70,630 Death by overdose that year.

In March 2020, the pandemic extended. Over the next three years, annual deaths on overdoses have climbed more than 100,000. Mental health problems have increased, including suicide deaths. The increases in the Samhsa budget had biparti support.

Now, there are general speeches that the Trump administration can fold Samhsa back into another health agency or return staff members and grant funds at 2019 levels, even if overdose death rates remain significantly higher in 2019. According to the most recent CDC update, Between September 2023 and September 2024, around 87,000 people died of drug overdoses.

Every day, Dora Dantzler-Wright and her colleagues distribute an overdose reversal in the streets of Chicago. They organize training sessions on their use and help people to cover drug addiction and alcohol dependence at work and their families.

They work in close collaboration with the federal government through an agency that monitors their productivity, links them to other groups sharing the same ideas and provides critical funds that maintain their work.

But in recent weeks, Ms. Wright’s telephone calls and emails in Washington have remained unanswered. Federal advisers of the local office of the agency – who oversee its group, the Chicago Recomering Communities CoalitionAs well as dependent programs in six Midwest states and 34 tribes – have disappeared.

“We continue to do the work without any update of the federals,” said Ms. Wright. “But we are lost.”

At the end of this week, agency staff, Administration of drug addiction and mental health servicescould be reduced by 50%, according to senior executives from the agency and aid from the congress who attended briefings by Trump officials.

With just under 900 employees and a budget of $ 7.2 billion for major state subsidies and individual non-profit organizations which deal with dependence and mental illness, Samhsa (pronounced Sam-Sah) is relatively low. But it addresses two of the country’s most urgent health problems and has generally had bipartite support.

The broadcasting of the agency includes supervision 988National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which organizes millions of calls through state office; regulate ambulatory clinics that provide drug treatment drugs such as methadone; Direct funds to drug courts (also called “processing courts”); and produce nationally Annual surveys consumption of mental health substances and problems.

It offers better training and resources for hundreds of non -profit and state organizations, and helps to establish centers which provide the prevention, treatment and social services of dependence on opioids. It is also a federal guard dog who closely monitors the expenses of subsidies funded by taxpayers for mental health and dependence.

President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Federal Health Secretary, whose portfolio includes Samhsa, struck himself to fight against the country’s drug attacks. Trump invoked the deaths of overdose as justification to impose prices in Canada, Mexico and China. Mr. Kennedy has often discussed his recovery in the process of dependence on heroin. During his presidential campaign, he produced a documentary on the impact of dependence in the United States which also explored different treatment Options.

While American overdose death rates remain high, they were declining Since 2023. Many drugs in drugs have said that Samhsa is the most directly responsible federal agency.

“Cutting Samhsa employees without understanding the impact is extremely dangerous, given behavioral health crises having an impact letter to Mr. Kennedy, signed by 57 members of the Democrat Chamber.

Staff discounts, they have argued, could lead to an increase in relapse rates, pressure on the health system and health results overall.

Asked about the pending cuts, a spokesperson for Samhsa replied: “The significant collaboration facilitated by the regional offices of Samhsa continues, regardless of the changes of staff, and the Samhsa staff remain deepeningly sensitive to the partners of the country.”

Tuesday, the Ministry of Health and Social Services announcement that this reduced its number of regional offices, which house agencies that include Samhsa, from 10 At four.

Proposals aimed at reducing the size of the staff between the ministries are due on Thursday. During the last month, Samhsa staff were reduced by around 10% thanks to workers’ layoffs in their probation period, an appointment that included people recently promoted to new positions. Last weekend, agency employees and other staff members supervised by Mr. Kennedy received emails offering $ 25,000 to those who left their jobs this Friday, characterized as a “voluntary separation”.

In interviews, a dozen current and former employees of Samhsa, including managers, said that the threat posed by dismissals and politics changes begins to feel in sites everywhere, from the heart of the city’s districts in difficulty to rural outposts. Certain new Samhsa projects in progress are barely in danger, such as one to map Chicago housing projects to better distribute drugs on naloxone’s rescue, and others to establish systems to quickly relay suicide intervention calls to response teams on the ground.

They said it was unlikely that the financing of centers focused on the treatment of mental health disorders or the consumption of substances of specific populations, such as black communities and LGBTQ, would be renetized.

Regina Labelle, the former interim director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, described the “Myope” staff reductions.

“This could reduce figures, but it also reduces surveillance and responsibility,” she said, hindering the agency’s ability to monitor grant funds and collect behavioral health data.

During the Biden administration, the agency’s budget and staff increased substantially, a development that mental health experts and drug addiction described as an attempted compensation for persistent under-funding. In 2019, just before the start of the pandemic, Samhsa had around 490 full -time staff members and a budget of around 5.5 billion dollars. According to the centers for disease control and prevention, there were 70,630 Death by overdose that year.

In March 2020, the pandemic extended. Over the next three years, annual deaths on overdoses have climbed more than 100,000. Mental health problems have increased, including suicide deaths. The increases in the Samhsa budget had biparti support.

Now, there are general speeches that the Trump administration can fold Samhsa back into another health agency or return staff members and grant funds at 2019 levels, even if overdose death rates remain significantly higher in 2019. According to the most recent CDC update, Between September 2023 and September 2024, around 87,000 people died of drug overdoses.