SAMHSA offers 20 year retrospective report

July 12, 2012 by Dennis Grantham, Editor-in-Chief

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NACBHDD executive director Ron Manderscheid and Paul Samuels, Director and President of the Legal Action Center, team to look back to SAMHSA's creation in 1992 and its achievements since.

1992-2012: Two Decades of Progress for Behavioral Health Care and SAMHSA has been produced to trace the history and impact of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) since its founding in 1992. Copies of the report are free for download.

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