>>1477591
Copies of the letter sent to two different organizations and reviewed by NPR signal that SAMHSA officials no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities.

The letter points to efforts to reshape the national health system in part by restructuring SAMHSA's grant program, which "includes terminating some of its … awards."

According to the letter, grants are terminated as of Jan.13, adding that "costs resulting from financial obligations incurred after termination are not allowable."

The National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors sent a letter to members saying it believes "over 2,000 grants [nationwide] with a total of more than $2 billion" are affected. The group said it's still working to understand the "full scope" of the cuts.

This move comes on top of deep Medicaid cuts, passed last year by the Republican-controlled Congress, which affect numerous mental health and addiction care providers.

Requests for comment from SAMHSA and the Department of Health and Human Services were not immediately returned.

Kessler told NPR he's hearing alarm from care providers nationwide that the safety net for people experiencing an addiction or mental health crisis could unravel.

"In the short term, there's going to be severe damage. We're going to have to scramble," he said.

Regina LaBelle, a Georgetown University professor who served as acting head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, said the SAMHSA grants pay for lifesaving services.

>>1477592
"From first responders to drug courts, continued federal funding quite literally save lives," LaBelle said. "The overdose epidemic has been declared a public health emergency and overdose deaths are decreasing. This is no time to pull critical funding."

The American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation said that among the programs eliminated are two administered by the APA Workforce Development Initiative and APAF's Notice. Talk. Act. at School Program.

"Overnight cuts to thousands of programs nationwide are nothing short of catastrophic, placing millions of Americans with unmet mental health and substance use disorder needs at even greater risk," APA President Dr. Theresa M. Miskimen Rivera said in a statement. "Our programs, which only represent a fraction of what's been cut, establish a vital pathway for psychiatrists to serve those in need, especially in areas experiencing mental health professional shortages, and in schools."

The Workforce Development Initiative includes programs that reach college and high school students who are considering the field of psychiatry. The APAF's program provides free mental health training for K-12 school staff.

"We can only imagine the good that the thousands of other programs that were eliminated were doing, and we call on the administration to reinstate the funding immediately," APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Marketa M. Wills said in the statement.

tl;dr: they want it kids to overdose and your mental illnesses to kill you

>>1477591
They want a bigger homeless problem so they can swoop in and "solve it" with additional abuse of the population.

>>1477596
>>1477598
Need to make sure their shillforce is kept retarded and drug addicted so they'll believe obvious lies and keep repeating them

They're trying to increase the amount of mass shootings.

>>1477599
I have no doubt that Democrat cities will be continuing to do that just fine with their ocean of homeless drug addicts without the federal government enabling fraud from the non profits who keep the funding while minimally helping the problem

>>1477660
Where do you poeple get this shit from?

>>1477660
>doesnt want drugs in the country
>instead of helping addicted people, lets leave them to fend for themselves
interesting logic

>>1477728
People with problems don't deserve compassion and help, they deserve judgment and punishment. It's the Christian way. Just ask yourself, what would Jesus do? Obviously cut off help for the homeless, he hated the poor with divine firey wrath. Mark tells the parable of the blind beggar who Jesus kicked off the temple stairs and told to get a job.

>>1477606
Mass shootings are down, despite the rise in left wing terrorism.

>>1477733
i wish someone would mass shoot your shillfarm with grammar lessons

>>1477735
How do you go on, knowing that you will never be American?

esl shill is projecting for the millionth time

Groups that never should have received any federal funding.

>>1477923
Mental health shouldn't be important? Remember when Republicunts would say "guns aren't the problem it's mental health issues!". So you're a hypocrite when it suits you like every other republijew? Are you winning now?

>>1477591
Must keep finding money to use to bail out the banks

>>1477502

>>1477949
Sorry, the world doesn't owe you A-N-YTHING

>>1477591
>embezzling fraudsters mad they can't steal from taxpayers anymore.

>>1477949
you know the judge who let the murderer get off and eventually stab irina to death on the subway? she was the chairman of an nonprofit mental health org and abused her position to grant leniency just to funnel more people through her organization.
so fuck off if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. if she wasn't directly benefiting from the government grants maybe Irina wouldn't of been stabbed.
but what do i expect from an absolute retard like you.
fuck you please just kill yourself ignorance isn't an excuse you should just fucking get stabbed to death on the metro by someone who gets let out so some cunt can profit.

no seriously fuck you just kill yourself

>>1477591
We need that money to fund the several upcoming wars Trump is about to start

>>1477949
Federal funds should never be giving grants to NGOs of any kind.

>>1478014
Why?

>>1478015
embezzlement. non profit just means the company not the leadership working there, they embezzle money all the time via events and speech fees

>>1478008
No, I don't follow your AI slop "news".
Nice whataboutism tho.

>>1478014
So you think we should defund the police, education, and every trade union?

>>1477591
This is the game plan: Defund every government agency and pocket the residuals, Scam your dumbfuck MAGAtard followers into buying your shitcoins and the rugpull them 15 times in a row, Put the money in a slush fund in Qatar, Country collapse into chaos, Flee on Qatari bribe jet to Qatar with your family, You and the family live it up in Qatar forever, Peter Thiel becomes a irl Andrew Ryan (but gay), Eat shit.

In a real country the blob would probably get lynched before he could put this incredibly shitty plan into practice but in the US they're just gonna let him do this because one part of the country are completely institution cucked and are still wringing their soy hands waiting for the senate to flip blue so that Cuck Schumer can threaten to indite Trump and then never do it.
They always fall for it and they never learn.

And the other half are so retarded that even after he fucked them they will still believe that Trump is some crusader king defending western civilization when in reality he's just really good at getting racist NEETcucks stuck in some brainwashing MLM cult without them even realizing it.
They'll spend the next decade or so trying to rationalize how they managed to get rugpulled by the most obvious con-man in history and somehow blame the democrats for their own retardation.

RIP. Genuinely. You had a good run.

Dead homeless people produce organs, nutrients and methane. They improve the lives of everyone else by dying.

>>1478038
>i support embezellment because i refuse to look up any news stories about it happening hahaha i am a high functional leftist nepobaby
ok keep your head buried in the sand then. its not whataboutism its objective reality. and you should die
>>1478039
>retard thinks police are NGO
>doesn't know what NGO stands for

>>1478043
won't you please improve my life?

>>1478045
>thing trump did that both democrats and republicans have now reversed good!!!
>therefore this totally unrelated thing!!! 1
You are a fucking puppet.

>>1478039
>government police, and public education
>NGO

>trade union
Unions should only be funded by membership dues. They should not have any other funding sourcea.