Bill > S4301

This bill, the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act, aims to reauthorize and improve the block grants for prevention and treatment of substance abuse. Key provisions include: 1. Requiring states to spend at least 10% of their grant funding on community-based and peer recovery support services for individuals with substance use disorders, with a special rule for 2023 allowing a lower 7% allocation. 2. Allowing states to use grant funds for infrastructure, education, or outreach to prevent overdose or other health risks related to substance use disorders. 3. Prohibiting states from excluding individuals from services based on their use of FDA-approved drugs for substance use disorder treatment. 4. Limiting the percentage of block grant funds that can be spent on treatment services in penal or correctional institutions to between 5-10%. 5. Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study to develop a model needs assessment process for states to determine how to best allocate block grant funding for substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery support. 6. Increasing the annual funding for the block grants from $1.858 billion to $3.2 billion for fiscal years 2023 through 2027. 7. Replacing outdated terminology like "substance abuse" with more person-first and destigmatizing language like "substance use disorders".

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