HHS Announces $1.8 billion in Funding to States to Fight Opioid Crisis
HHS this week announced more than $1.8 billion in
funding to states to combat America’s deadly opioid crisis by expanding access to treatment and supporting near real-time data on the drug overdoses.
As part of the funding, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced more than $900 million in new funding for a three-year cooperative agreement with states, territories, and localities to better understand the opioid crisis and build prevention and response activities.
The Atlanta-based CDC will release $301 million in the first year. The funding will support the work of 47 states, Washington, D.C., two territories, and 16 counties and cities. Awardees will use these funds to strengthen prescription drug monitoring programs, improve state-local integration, establish links to care, and support healthcare providers and health systems.
HHS said it will have awarded more than $9 billion in grants to states and local communities by the end of 2019 to help increase access to treatment and prevention services.
HRSA and SAMHSA Team Up on Medication Assisted Treatment
The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are partnering to connect qualified clinicians with free medication assisted treatment (MAT) training and professional development resources.
The new partnership will provide the opportunity to obtain the DATA 2000 waiver, which is meant to increase access to quality substance use disorder or opioid use disorder treatment in rural and underserved areas.
Click
here to learn more about the new partnership, MAT training, and the DATA 2000 waiver.
SAMHSA Introduces New Logo to Commemorate National Recovery Month’s 30thAnniversary
This year marks the 30
th anniversary of National Recovery Month, which SAMHSA commemorates each September.
As part of the anniversary, SAMHSA unveiled a new logo featuring an “r” symbol to represent Recovery and the need to support the millions of individuals who are living in recovery—as well as their family members and loved ones.
The 2019 National Recovery Month theme is
Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Are Stronger, and SAMHSA has created
resources for providers to use and share.
September is also Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, with National Suicide Prevention Week kicking off this Sunday, Sept. 8 and ending on Saturday, Sept. 14. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has developed its own set of
resources, including social media posts, for providers and advocates to share.
NABH will be tweet and post our messages about access to care—as well as important messages from NAMI and SAMHSA—during National Recovery Month and Suicide Prevention Awareness Month to build awareness around suicide prevention and the need for effective care to help patients on the road to recovery.
Please be sure to follow us on
Twitter and
LinkedIn and share our messages with others. Thank you for your cooperation.
National Addiction Treatment Week is October 21-27, 2019
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) will host
National Addiction Treatment Week from October 21-27, 2019 to raise awareness about the gap in certified addiction medicine care and treatment.
The week is also meant to expand the qualified workforce and build awareness around the important need for clinicians to enter the field of addiction medicine.
To participate, follow
@TreatmentWeek on Twitter and use hashtag #TreatmentWeek to share your messages about addiction care and treatment.
Save the Date for the NABH 2020 Annual Meeting!
Please save the date and plan to attend the NABH 2020 Annual Meeting at the Mandarin Oriental Washington, DC from
March 16-18, 2020.
NABH will send Save-the-Date cards with details in late September and will alert members when online registration and hotel reservations are available.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington next March!
New CEO Update Feature: Fact of the Week
Starting with this edition, NABH will provide a “Fact of the Week” as the last item in NABH’s weekly
CEO Update. Some of these facts may be new, while others may have appeared as news items in previous editions of the
CEO Update and are important enough to highlight.
If you have an item to share with fellow NABH members, please contact
Jessica Zigmond, NABH’s director of communications.
This week’s fact:
The risk of a suicide attempt doubles among the children of opioid users.
For questions or comments about CEO Update, please contact Jessica Zigmond.