United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (definition)

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Definition: 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.

add UNITED STATES (NIM); research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; DF: SAMHSA CATALOG: use NAF entry

Other names United States Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Heal; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminis; SAMHSA; Health Services and Mental Health Administration (; Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administrat; United States Health Services and Mental Health Ad; Health Services and Mental Health Administration; Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administrat

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