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Katy Yeager Gooding hugs her social worker Angela Davis on a visit with her baby Kennedy Gooding to Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia.

The mental health overhaul that’s already underway

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The Excellence in Mental Health Act is still in its early stages, but its estimated $1 billion investment in mental health services for low-income Americans have led advocates to call it “the biggest federal investment in mental health and addiction services in generations.”

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