Health & Science Trump administration freezes database of addiction and mental health programs

[Eliot Rosewater]

Source: Washington Post

Federal health officials have suspended a program that helps thousands of professionals and community groups across the country find effective interventions for preventing and treating mental illness and substance use disorders.

The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices is housed within the Health and Human Services Department’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-freezes-database-of-addiction-and-mental-health-programs/2018/01/10/ed421654-f577-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.10a1ea263823

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Wait, I thought you cared about addiction as an issue.

Folks, the GOP and Trump HATE you, sorry to tell you.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility of this evil.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The American people are pretty much on their own now. nt

[CabalPowered]

3. Pure evil

NREPP is highly-regarded database used by thousands of health professionals.

[get the red out]

4. "Evidence based"

Probably the idea of Evidence based treatment pissed them off. They probably want to turn people over to the right wing churches for conversion instead of treatment.

[Duppers]

9. Yup.

👍

[Dave Starsky]

12. Recall that "evidence based" is one of those terms...

That the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are literally forbidden to use in their reporting.

Which is absolutely fucking ridiculous, because that is literally all they work with.

[vlyons]

5. lock up the mentally impaired in for-profit prisons

Hey let's not spend our preciously gotten money that we cheated and lied for to help sick people. Besides the little people don't matter.

[arithia]

8. that seems to be the running plan

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/10/incarceration.aspx

"Mental illness among today's inmates is also pervasive, with 64 percent of jail inmates, 54 percent of state prisoners and 45 percent of federal prisoners reporting mental health concerns, the report found. Substance abuse is also rampant and often co-occurring."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. In the middle of an opioid crisis, tRump kicks his white base hardest with this.

Whites: up 114 %. That's a doubling.

Greatest increase in the 20K - 50K income group: That's tRump's base.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Deploy D door-canvassers for 2018 midterms with TABLETS full of charts like this.

Or even looseleaf binders (high tech!) with charts like this.

There is are multiple charts for every skeptical wobbly middle voter's concerns.

[infullview]

10. It's not his fault

The database has the word "evidence" in it

[Old Vet]

11. Did Obama start the data base of addiction programs? If so I understand whats going on...

Appears to me that ANYTHING Obama did for the good of our country, 45 is determined to close,shut down, or just say its fake.

[Volaris]

13. He doesn't want the physicians from Bethesda Naval entering his name in that database after today's

Exams..
To strike a more serious tone, this is some seriously cruel and ignorant shit...This kind of system IS our National infrastructure.

[Victor_c3]

14. As a guy with a substance abuse problem...

...and a severe psychiatric issue, I admit that it was brought on by my poor decisions. I should have never volunteered for military service and it is my own fault that I ended up deploying to a combat zone in the service of our nation. If I was smart I would have followed trump’s example and skipped military service altogether.

People like me with mental health issues and substance abuse issues are just weak and lack solid moral character - never mind the fact that I volunteered for military service, busted my ass in the Iraq, and was awarded a CIB, BSM, and ARCOM-V for my actions in combat. How many republicans can say the same?

I should have been like other prominate republicans and skipped service to my nation altogether.

[Skittles]

15. we all know who is weak and lacks solid moral character, Victor_c3

yes INDEED

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. Trump, Hannity, Ryan, McConnell etal would NEVER serve this nation, they ONLY steal.

YOU and your fellow soldiers and sailors, marines and air-persons are the real heros,

FUCK YOU TRUMP