Keys To the Closet: February 2014

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

SAMHSA Report on LGBT and Behavioral Health

The new report, “LGBT Populations: A Dialogue on Advancing Opportunities for Recovery from Addictions and Mental Health Problems,” identifies factors that promote or hinder recovery from mental illness or substance use for the LGBT population. The publication is available for free from the SAMHSA store at http://store.samhsa.gov//product/SMA13-4774

Quote of the Week

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage.

At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm same-sex couples should be able to get married,” President Barrack Obama.

Resources

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

SAMHSA Report on LGBT and Behavioral Health