Mayor Pete Buttigieg: Mental Health & Addiction Are Linked — And Here’s How We Fix It

Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at the Harold Washington Cultural Center in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago last Wednesday. Photo by the author.

We are facing a massive mental health and addiction catastrophe in this country, and few 2020 candidates have built an action plan more robust than the treatment strategy proposed by Mayor Pete Buttigieg last week.

Mental health and addiction are often linked. This is a concept that is just coming into focus in…