CRUELTY KILLS –
March 27, 2025 – “Services will be dropped in the middle. Bang, the clinic is closing. It’s a brutal way to make these cuts.” The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is being merged into a new organization, called the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA). The move to rescind funds that include addiction-care grants drew criticism from experts who warned progress reducing overdose deaths could be reversed.
“DOGE is now actively cutting funding aimed at reducing overdose deaths by clawing back money from states,” wrote Regina LaBelle, an expert on drug policy at Georgetown University who served in the Biden administration in a post on social media. “With overdose deaths still exceeding 80,000 annually, is DOGE declaring victory?”
