Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to substance abuse and mental health. It is commonly referred to by the acronym SAMHSA. On 1 October 1992, the United States Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) became SAMHSA.

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An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to substance abuse and mental health. It is commonly referred to by the acronym SAMHSA. On 1 October 1992, the United States Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) became SAMHSA.

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  • SAMHSA
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (U.S.)
  • Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration
  • Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (U.S.)
  • Health Services and Mental Health Administration
  • Health Services and Mental Health Administration (U.S.)
  • United States Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration
  • United States Health Services and Mental Health Administration

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry

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History Note

1994

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014482. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014482
  2. United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_Abuse_and_Mental_Health_Services_Administration
  3. United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7632057