Month: May 2025

House Budget Reconciliation Proposals Will Be Devastating for Medicaid, People with Mental Illness

May 19, 2025

nami.org | Arlington, VA — Today, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) released a statement expressing alarm following the newly released congressional proposal to significantly cut Medicaid, which would cause … Read more

Statement from CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control on Provisional 2024 Overdose Death Data

May 19, 2025

CDC Media Relations | cdc.gov | Today’s provisional data release from CDC’s National Vital Statistics System shows a remarkable nearly 27% decrease in predicted drug overdose deaths in 2024 compared … Read more

A silent epidemic: Confronting mental health in U.S. agriculture

May 19, 2025

Jill Dutton | The Packer | In rural communities across the U.S., where self-reliance is prized and help can be miles away, farmers are battling a silent epidemic: rising rates … Read more

Mental Health Awareness Month 2025

May 1, 2025

nami.org | Join NAMI’s Mental Health Awareness Month Campaign This May This May, take action, raise your voice, and help change the conversation around mental health! Since 1949, Mental Health … Read more

NAMI’s Dr. Ken Duckworth to Receive 2025 Humanitarian Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry

May 1, 2025

nami.org | Arlington, VA – The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is proud to announce that Dr. Ken Duckworth, NAMI’s chief medical officer, has been named the recipient of … Read more

Education Department cancels grants that won bipartisan support after Uvalde attack

May 1, 2025

By Juan Perez Jr. | politico.com | The Education Department is cutting approximately $1 billion worth of federal mental health grants approved by Congress in the wake of a 2022 … Read more

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