USA Today (6/21, O’Donnell) reports that “amid projections of soaring suicide, drug and alcohol deaths from the pandemic-spawned social and economic collapse,” many mental health and substance abuse treatment centers and their patients are struggling. Such facilities have “been largely left out of the murky formula for federal COVID-19 health care funding, which has focused on the immediate financial impact on hospitals caring for patients with the virus and lost revenue from elective procedures.”
Related Links:
— “As suicide, addiction death projections soar amid COVID-19, treatment centers struggle to stay alive too, “Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, June 21, 2020