This Mental Health Awarness and Improvement Act of 2015, this bill was passed in the Senate on December 18, 2015 and goes to the House next for consideration. This bill is to reauthorize and improve programs relatated to mental health disorders. For example, in the previous bill before it was amended was called the Public Health Service Act. The name was not the only thing amended, the text and language was as well, for example they revised, "substance abuse" to "substance use and disorders" due to the medical language changing and in efforts not to offend anyone.
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