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WASHINGTON The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a Behavioral Health Coordinating Council to address the mental health and substance use disorders that have increased during the pandemic, Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, MD, said Tuesday.
The council s primary goal is to facilitate collaborative, innovative, transparent, equitable, action-oriented approaches to addressing the nation s behavioral health needs, Levine said on a Zoom call with reporters. This council will be comprised of senior leadership from across HHS operating and staff divisions . Establishing a new behavioral health Coordinating Council will assure that right and correct prioritization guidelines are in place to provide pathways to prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery services. Levine will co-chair the council along with Tom Coderre, Acting Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use.
Jake Ehlinger: Public Demands Truth Behind His Cause of Death But Is It Possible?
The public cannot rest their minds as they want to know the truth behind Jake Ehlinger s death.
Over a week since Jake s death shocked his fans, some people just keep on trying to know the cause of death despite the family s request for privacy.
On Twitter, a user queried what truly happened to Jake before and after his body was found. To recall, the Austin Police Department received a call about the death of a young man on the 1200 block of West 22nd Street. What was Jake Ehlinger s cause of death? Is this too much to ask? I am a resident of Austin, TX, the Twitter user asked.
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Opioid Makers on Trial in West Virginia After 700 People in 1 County Overdosed and Died
On 5/13/21 at 4:48 PM EDT
Associated Press reported.
The West Virginia city of Huntington and surrounding Cabell County sued the national distribution companies AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson after hundreds of residents overdosed and died from opioid addiction from 2015 to 2020.
The trial opened in federal court this month and marks just one of 3,000 lawsuits filed in federal courts in the Northern District of Ohio, as the region grapples with an opioid crisis that has shattered communities over several years.
During the trial, an expert witness for the region used data compiled by the federal government to show that pharmaceutical distributors shipped nearly 128 million doses of prescription opioids to the Cabell County from 2006 to 2014 equating to more than 140 per resident each year,