US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance use
The US health officials have reversed their decision to cut nearly $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance use programs. On Tuesday, the health department had unexpectedly announced the immediate shutdown of these programs, but on Wednesday night, they began reinstating the cuts. This reversal is seen as a blow to the agenda of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, who has been making aggressive and legally contested cuts to health agencies in the first year of the Trump administration and has proposed merging the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Samhsa) into a new agency called the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA).
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