Abstract
State lawmakers and medical professionals gathered last week in an ongoing push to address mental health and substance abuse in North Carolina, WRAL‐TV News reported on June 26. U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis hosted a roundtable to discuss current challenges in the state and how they can be addressed. Health providers, lawmakers and advocates for recovery agreed that current programs to help mental health and substance abuse have been underfunded and stigmatized for years, arguing that it is time for change. Kody Kinsley, North Carolina's secretary of health and human services, said, “It has been underfunded for a long time, stigmatized for a very long time. I think we're seeing it first and foremost in children.” The roundtable was held to mark the anniversary of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act being signed into law. The law was authored by Sen. Tillis and, among other actions, aimed to harden school security and implement crisis intervention programs in schools. “I want North Carolina to be the number one state for implementing all the mental health behavioral health capabilities we've authorized in the bill,” Sen. Tillis said. “I want North Carolina to be extraordinary.”
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