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Nonpartisan effort hopes to make MH, SUD part of 2020 candidates' platforms
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31941
Subject(s) - addiction , mental health , presidential system , action (physics) , political science , public relations , substance use , public administration , psychology , psychiatry , law , physics , quantum mechanics , politics
In efforts to elevate mental health and addiction‐related policy issues in conversations among presidential hopefuls, mental health and substance use advocacy groups and organizations have launched a nonpartisan educational initiative with the intention of getting leading candidates in the 2020 campaign on the record about their specific policy proposals and plans to put them into action.