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Merging Center articles into Organization section

The stubs for Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Center for Mental Health Service, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment are roughly the same length as § Center for Mental Health Services in this article. I propose merging these into the Organization section. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
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Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 13:21, 28 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

COVID-19 in schools controversy

Here's a story in the NYT about how the Trump administration got SAMHSA to prepare documents to overrule the Centers for Disease Control recommendations for opening schools during the COVID-19 epidemic.

The CDC recommendations originally warned that if children attended school during the epidemic, they were at risk of getting infected, developing COVID-19 disease themselves, or passing the virus on to parents and other adults.

The SAMHSA recommendations said that the risks of children infecting family members with COVID-19 were low, and they were outweighed by the risk of school closures on the mental health of children.

Olivia Troye, an aide to Mike Pence, resigned and went public because she felt it was wrong to risk lives for political purposes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/politics/white-house-cdc-coronavirus-schools.html
Behind the White House Effort to Pressure the C.D.C. on School Openings
Documents and interviews show how senior officials sought to play down the risks of sending children back to the classroom, alarming public health experts.
By Mark Mazzetti, Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere
New York Times
Sept. 28, 2020
—Nbauman (talk) 04:27, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]