Biden Outlines Next Steps to Address Mental Health, Substance Use

White House (2/07) -- A year after unveiling a 4-part “Unity Agenda” in which addressing the nation’s addiction and mental health crisis were key tenets, President Joe Biden reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to those goals and outlined a series of initiatives to improve access to evidence-based care as well as disrupt the flow of illicit substances in the US. [...] Biden touted federal efforts to ease requirements for prescribing medications to treat opioid addiction among examples of the administration’s efforts to implement the Unity Agenda over the past year. Cont.