Behavioral Health Reforms Line Up For Next Legislative Package

Lawmakers have teed up several behavioral health reforms to slip into the next major legislative package this year or in early 2024, including proposals to integrate mental health with primary care and reauthorize the SUPPORT Act -- all while the Biden administration has approved more state plans to fund mental health crisis response teams and is trying to reduce substance use disorder stigma in the workforce. Advocates were saddened Sept. 30 when Congress let the 2018 law that created several...