The problems preceded sequestration. Several representatives noted that sequestration makes it more imperative, rather than less to focus SAMHSA resources on the most seriously ill.

Congress has the power to improve care and derivatively prevent violence. More money is not needed. Smarter spending is.

An op-ed on SAMHSA I wrote in the Washington Times begins: Presidents Ford and Reagan and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were all attacked by people with u...

My feeling was that Congressman Rangel, like most Americans, does not understand that the billions going to "mental health" services are not going to the seriously mentally ill.

In this week's National Review, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, of the Treatment Advocacy Center, argues that to improve care for people with mental illness, Pr...

By age 25, 54 percent of the population has admittedly used marijuana. Does anyone still believe that marijuana prohibition is working -- or that all of these people deserve to be behind bars?

It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Drug Courts work. Drug Courts significantly reduce drug abuse and crime and do so at less expense than any other justice strategy.

Is someone who opposes what the science says is the best treatment for heroin addiction really someone we want in charge of the agency which is supposed to help disseminate evidence-based care?