Advocacy Statements
April 30, 2025
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the undersigned allied psychiatry organizations, respectfully ask that you ensure mental health and substance use disorder treatment and services remain essential priorities within the Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS), and that the programs within the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are unimpeded to support the mental health of our communities and to address chronic disease with a strong emphasis on prevention and early intervention. View Full Policy
December 17, 2024
Given the nation’s drug overdose crisis, we ask President Biden to immediately lift the current $75 maximum restriction in certain federal grant programs on patient incentives for recovery behaviors (known as Contingency Management or CM) from opioid, stimulant, and alcohol use disorders. Lifting this cap is crucial for enhancing the effectiveness of treatments for substance use disorders. View Full Policy
May 14, 2024
Letter to express concern that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently released two Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) with a combined total of about 2 billion for State Opioid Response (SOR) and Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) grants, both with non-evidence based limits on funding for contingency management (CM), despite CM’s proven efficacy in the treatment of stimulant use disorder (StimUD). View Full Policy
May 14, 2024
Request that the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee include in its Fiscal 2025 LHHS Appropriations Bill and Report funding and language to support three programs that provide enhanced technical assistance, education and training for clinicians who are responding to the overdose crisis facing our nation to ensure effective, evidence-based treatments are delivered to people with substance use disorders. View Full Policy
January 9, 2024
AAAP and 40 other organizations express strong support for the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act (S. 3393), sponsored by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA). View Full Policy
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