[Elendur]

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
I assume this is a Federal government outfit? Nuke it.
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Yes !
my child is already $46,000 in debt.
and most government programs are not just worthless,
but actually increase the things they try to get rid of.
(like the war on drugs and the war on poverty and the war on the “achievement gap”).

[Tax-chick]

and most government programs are not just worthless, but actually increase the things they try to get rid of

It's not a bug, it's a feature. That's the way all bureaucracies, whether government or private, work. If they eliminate the problem, they also eliminate their reason for existence, and then the employees are looking for work.

All "good works" should be done by volunteers - unpaid volunteers with a day job or a dozen loads of laundry to do - so they won't become reliant financially or personally on the existence of the "client" population.