Presidential Document2023-19338
National Recovery Month, 2023
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September 6, 2023
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August 31, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 6, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60875-60876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19338]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 171 / Wednesday, September 6, 2023 /
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Proclamation 10614 of August 31, 2023
National Recovery Month, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Recovery Month, we celebrate the more
than 20 million Americans who have had the courage to
seek help for substance use disorder, showing millions
of others that recovery is possible. We honor their
resilience and recommit to making sure that every
American has access to the services and support they
need to rebuild lives of purpose and hope.
Substance use disorder affects families in every corner
of our country. Drug overdoses last year took more than
100,000 American lives. Addressing this crisis is a
core pillar of my Unity Agenda--one of the big issues
we can tackle together as a Nation.
That work starts by fulfilling the promise of true
parity for mental health and substance use disorder
treatment for all Americans. Mental health and
substance use disorder care is health care. It is
essential to people's well-being--to their ability to
lead full and productive lives, to find joy and
meaning, to take care of themselves and their loved
ones, and to give back to their communities and our
Nation. It is about dignity. Health insurers should
cover it the same way they would cover treatment for a
broken bone or any other kind of health condition. And
since I took office, that is what we have been fighting
to do.
The American Rescue Plan delivered more than $5 billion
to expand mental health and substance use disorder
services. I have worked with a group of bipartisan
members of the Congress to make it easier for doctors
to prescribe effective treatments for opioid use
disorder, and the Food and Drug Administration has
approved two Naloxone products for over-the-counter
use, expanding access to life-saving opioid-reversal
medications that can prevent fatal overdoses. We have
expanded the Nation's system of Certified Community
Behavioral Health Clinics, opening 140 new centers to
provide frontline care, regardless of a patient's
ability to pay. We also launched a nationwide Suicide
and Crisis Lifeline (9-8-8), which connects callers to
trained counselors around the clock. The Department of
Labor created a Recovery-Ready Workplace Resource Hub
to help employers support and hire people in recovery.
We have come a long way toward improving access to care
and building our Nation's recovery support services
infrastructure, but there is much more to do. Last
month, my Administration proposed a new rule that would
require health insurers to identify any gaps in the
mental health and substance use disorder care they
provide and to ensure that mental and physical health
services are equally accessible. We are also working
with States to ensure that millions of Medicaid
patients enrolled in private Medicaid health plans have
coverage for mental health and substance use disorder
services. In all, my Fiscal Year 2024 Budget requests a
historic $46 billion for prevention, treatment, and
recovery services for substance use disorder, as well
as reducing the supply of deadly drugs.
Millions of Americans know and love someone who is in
recovery. We want everyone to know that they are never
alone. As a Nation working together, we can make
recovery real for more Americans.
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NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 2023
as National Recovery Month. I call upon all citizens,
government agencies, private businesses, nonprofit
organizations, and other groups to take action to
promote recovery and improve the health of our Nation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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[FR Doc. 2023-19338
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