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The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Future of Behavioral Health Care
For the first time in U.S. history,
overdose deaths have exceeded 100,000 per year and one person dies by
suicide every 11 minutes. The U.S. continues to experience a mental health (MH) and substance use disorder (SUD) (behavioral health)…