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NAMI Calls On Congress To Respond To The Mental Health And Addiction Crisis Caused By The COVID-19 Pandemic

4/8/2020

Today, NAMI joined more than a dozen of the nation’s leading mental health organizations in calling for specific additions to the next stimulus package to address the profound mental health implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to critical care must be sustained for the millions of Americans living with mental health and substance use disorders, as well as those who may now need help due to isolation, grief, unemployment, increased anxiety, and more.

The COVID-19 pandemic is overwhelming our communities and our nation’s health care system, including for mental health and addiction. Congress must take immediate action to prevent the behavioral health system from collapsing and to mitigate a greater public health andeconomic crisis from untreated mental illness and addiction.

In the fourth stimulus package, the following emergency appropriations and policy changes are urgently needed.

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Lol,

You cant stop Congress, right ?

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I know we as sufferers are affected maybe more than others,

but it’s kinda par for the course, don’t you think?

And I wouldn’t go saying all this citizens are now mentally ill.

idk.

I think this is good. There’s definitely a need for additional funding for mental health services right now. Even the President is aware of the dangers right now. I think it won’t be a problem getting the extra funding at all.

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