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Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32156
Subject(s) - haven , substance abuse , addiction , citation , library science , political science , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , criminology , family medicine , law , computer science , mathematics , combinatorics
The $1 billion, two‐year Opioid STR funds that went to states from the 21st Century Cures Act passed by Congress in December of 2016 are getting some help in being spent. The STR Technical Assistance (TA) consortium, funded to the tune of $12 million by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which also funds STR and the ensuing SOR grants, now has teams in states to advise on how the STR funds can be spent. The $12 million STR TA consortium grant was announced last December and was awarded to the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. The STR grants — as well as the SOR grants — went to the Single State Authorities who are members of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors — the same people with authority over the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant. Why do these experts need help in how to spend treatment money in their state? Still waiting for an answer from SAMHSA. (As for where the $12 million came from, it was from the $15 million in the first year of STR funding – out of $500 million, states only got $485 million for treatment, with the rest going to TA and evaluation.)