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Mental Health America encourages its affiliates and mental health and substance use disorder stakeholders to advocate for promotion of healthy substance use and prevention of addiction and widespread availability and accessibility of mental health and substance use treatment services that are evidence- and strengths-based and fully integrated with each other and with general health services. MHA urges that states and the federal government respond to this acute social crisis with recovery-and wellness-oriented, family- and partner-supportive, consumer-driven, and culturally and linguistically competent services.