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Silenced Systems: When the Government Walks Away from Mental Health

In the name of efficiency, the administration is gutting the nation’s behavioral health infrastructure, leaving the vulnerable nowhere to turn.

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Marie Riverton
May 02, 2025
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Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in our Disposable America series (see the first article linked later in this piece), which investigates how federal restructuring and funding decisions are dismantling essential health and social services. In our first piece, we examined the broad reshaping of the Department of Health and Human Services. Now…

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