NAADAC Federal Advocacy Update Regarding Appropriations for FY 2020 to Support Vital Addiction-Related Efforts
The L-HHS bill, in its entirety, represents an increase of nearly $12 billion over 2019 levels and an $8.5 billion increase for HHS alone, which supports many of the nation’s most critical treatment and recovery initiatives. Importantly, the Subcommittee also allocated nearly $6 billion to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The legislation builds on commitments made in FY19 to stem the nation’s addiction crisis and also delivered funds to three new behavioral health programs aimed at enhancing treatment efforts. Substance use prevention funding also received an additional $7 million above 2019 levels.
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As Meth Use Surges, First Responders Struggle To Help Those In Crisis
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Eric Westervelt, NPR Morning Edition
Faced with a flood of addicted inmates and challenged by lawsuits, America's county jails are struggling to adjust to an opioid health crisis that has turned many of the jails into their area's largest drug treatment centers. In an effort to get a handle on the problem, more jails are adding some form of medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, to help inmates safely detox from opioids and stay clean behind bars and after release. But there are deep concerns about potential abuse of the treatment drugs, as well as worries about the efficacy and costs of programs that jails just weren't designed or built for.
Ramsey Scott & Chrissy Suttles, Adams Publishing Group
While it took years for lawmakers, government officials and the press to truly grasp the scope of the opioid problem, those on the front lines were seeing ramifications shortly after the introduction of a new wave of opioid painkillers in the late 1990s. One of the most important steps was creating a coordinated response on the state level, but there’s still work to be done.
Max Blau, Stateline
In the Bible Belt, many Southerners who held conservative views often criticized harm reduction as something that encouraged — not ended — the use of drugs. Those practices, in many states, were banned outright. But attitudes have shifted, given the sheer scale of the epidemic, proof that some harm reduction efforts save lives as well as taxpayer dollars, and the changing cultural view of drug users.
Willis R. Arnold, NPR
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston has ruled that a rural Maine jail must provide an inmate with medication for her opioid use disorder. One of her attorneys says the new ruling has the potential to create a "big signal" for jails across the country and combat the social barriers preventing incarcerated people from receiving treatment.
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Know the Risks of Marijuana
Marijuana use comes with real risks that can impact a person’s health and life.
Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal substance in the U.S. and its use is growing. Marijuana use among all adult age groups, both sexes, and pregnant women is going up. At the same time, the perception of how harmful marijuana use can be is declining. Increasingly, young people today do not consider marijuana use a risky behavior.
But there are real risks for people who use marijuana, especially youth and young adults, and women who are pregnant or nursing. Today’s marijuana is stronger than ever before. People can and do become addicted to marijuana.
"Approximately 1 in 10 people who use marijuana will become addicted. When they start before age 18, the rate of addiction rises to 1 in 6."
Know the risks before you use.
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CAADE Newsletter is a general dissemination of information for addiction professionals. We seek to inform the community by posting upcoming events, addiction related articles, and recommendations for scholastic excellence. CAADE does not necessarily endorse the opinions or views put forth in these articles, neither guarantees the accuracy of the information provided by external sources/links nor accepts responsibility or liability for any consequences arising from the use of such data.
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