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November 27, 2023 On November 21, 2023, President Joe Biden held a meeting on the progress made to counter the flow of fentanyl into the United States. As shared by the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, "President Biden has made beating the overdose epidemic a key...

November 21, 2023 On November 8, 2023, the United States Senate Finance Committee convened to deliberate on the Better Mental Health Care, Lower-Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act. The bipartisan legislation package, as reported in a Hearing Summary by Thorn Run Partners, aims to expa...

November 17, 2023 On November 14, 2023, the U.S. House of Representatives, led by recently elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), overwhelmingly passed a two-tiered Continuing Resolution (CR) that would extend temporary funding at current levels for some agencies until Janu...

November 14, 2023 The United States Congress has until this Friday, November 17, 2023, to pass funding resolutions that would prevent a partial government shutdown, which would go into effect beginning Saturday, November 18, 2023. As reported on Reuters.com, recently elected Speaker...

November 9, 2023 The New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) and the New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) will host public budget listening sessions on November 13 and 14, and 29, 2023, respectively. ...

November 7, 2023 In 2021, in consultation with the New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) and community stakeholders, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office and the New Jersey State Police piloted the Alternative Responses...

November 2, 2023 A study from Harvard's Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project has found that in December 2022, young adults experienced depression and anxiety at nearly twice the rate of teenagers. The study, titled On Edge: Understanding and Preventing Youn...

October 30, 2023 To help professionals, families, and communities support the mental well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and Two-Spirit + (LGBTQIA2S+) youth, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)-funded Sui...

October 26, 2023 On October 23, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin, along with Attorneys General from 31 other states, filed a lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, alleging the company knowingly designed harmful features that make children ad...

October 23, 2023 On October 19, 2023, Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way, as Acting Governor while Governor Murphy is overseas, signed A1176 into law as P.L.2023, c.168, which requires institutions of higher education to implement suicide prevention programs and raise awareness of mental...

October 19, 2023 A new study conducted as part of the HEALing Communities Study has found that telehealth supports retention in treatment for opioid use disorder. This is the largest addiction prevention and treatment implementation study ever conducted. It is supported by the Nation...

October 17, 2023 "This year, we are joining the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) and the National Domestic Violence Hotline in promoting the hashtag #1Thing, which encourages everyone to do just one thing t...

October 16, 2023 For this year's observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) throughout October, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's) Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) selected Advancing Access and Equity as the theme. NDEAM "celebrates the contr...

October 12, 2023 The New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services (DMAHS) has published its August 2023 Medicaid Monthly Renewal Report, sharing updates on Medicaid redetermination efforts and data since they began in April of this ...

October 10, 2023 On May 1, 2023, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued a temporary rule extending the allowance of the use of telemedicine for prescribing controlled medications in instances where ...

October 9, 2023 On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, following both state and federal reports criticizing the COVID-19 response at state-run nursing homes for veterans, Governor Phil Murphy and a group of State Senators announced a conceptual agreement to pursue structural reforms to the de...

October 9, 2023 On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, following both state and federal reports criticizing the COVID-19 response at state-run nursing homes for veterans, Governor Phil Murphy and a group of State Senators announced a conceptual agreement to pursue structural reforms to the de...

October 5, 2023 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day (KOOAD), which has been observed on October 6th in New Jersey since 2016, is this Friday. KOOAD is the ...

October 3, 2023 On Saturday, September 30, 2023, after weeks of seemingly unproductive efforts, and with just hours to spare, both houses of Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law a Continuing Resolution (CR). This temporary funding measure will fund the federal gover...

Mental Illness Awareness Week is observed each year during the first week of October, and will begin this year on Sunday, October 1, 2023, running through Saturday, October 7, 2023. On September 27, 2023, Governor Phil Murphy signed a proclamation officially declaring Oct. 1st - 7th as ...