Trump administration ends registry for substance abuse, mental health programs

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Source: The Hill

The federal government has ended a national registry designed to provide information to the public about evidence-based mental health and substance use interventions and programs.

The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, which is funded and administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has existed since 1997 to help people, agencies and organizations identify and implement evidence-based behavioral health programs and practices in their communities, according to the website.

But the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the department under HHS that manages the program, wrote on its website that the contract for the database had been discontinued.

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SAMHSA's in-house "policy lab" will "lead the effort to reconfigure its approach to identifying and disseminating evidence-base practice and programs."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/368404-trump-administration-ends-national-database-for-substance-abuse-mental

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1. Pulling up the ladder behind them. That is what the GOP does every day.

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2. How adorably

Nazi of them.

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3. Facts only confuse him.

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4. That's one way to legitimize gay conversion therapy.

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5. crap!!