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Cures Act brings mental health reform, but much more needed for children and adolescents
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30182
Subject(s) - mental health , legislation , addiction , political science , public administration , economic growth , medicine , psychiatry , law , economics
Last month, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, which represents major progress into mental health reform. Along with major changes to this country's mental health system, the legislation provides $1 billion to address opioid addiction, and $4.8 billion to the National Institutes of Health for new medical research.