Tomorrow Arnold, PhD, LMSW
@todayadjacent.bsky.social
Therapist, Researcher, Educator, Gamer, Baker 🏳️🌈 Geriatric Mental Health | Addiction
Reposted by Tomorrow Arnold, PhD, LMSW
Defunding SAMHSA won’t make mental health and substance use challenges magically disappear. This isn’t peekaboo. It’s real people with real problems and in a country without other social and health safety nets they are cutting it to provide tax cuts to billionaires.
"By the end of this week, the staff of the agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, could be cut by 50 percent, according to senior staff members at the agency and congressional aides who attended briefings by Trump officials."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/h...
Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts (Gift Article)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Defunding SAMHSA won’t make mental health and substance use challenges magically disappear. This isn’t peekaboo. It’s real people with real problems and in a country without other social and health safety nets they are cutting it to provide tax cuts to billionaires.
Reposted by Tomorrow Arnold, PhD, LMSW
An NIH "scientific review officer said he could describe the impact of these layoffs on the agency’s ability to review grant applications and fund research in two words: 'We’re fucked.'"
In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
An NIH "scientific review officer said he could describe the impact of these layoffs on the agency’s ability to review grant applications and fund research in two words: 'We’re fucked.'"
Reposted by Tomorrow Arnold, PhD, LMSW
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
