Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act Public Law 116–335 Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act 335 116–335 Statute Compilation United States House of Representatives Office of the Legislative Counsel text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. GPO Statute Compilations USLM converter, version 20210527.1 2021-10-15 EFFORT Act Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act 16203 116 2021-01-13 Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act [(Public Law 116–335)] [This law has not been amended] [Currency: This publication is a compilation of the text of Public Law 116–335. It was last amended by the public law listed in the As Amended Through note above and below at the bottom of each page of the pdf version and reflects current law through the date of the enactment of the public law listed at https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/comps/] [Note: While this publication does not represent an official version of any Federal statute, substantial efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of its contents. The official version of Federal law is found in the United States Statutes at Large and in the United States Code. The legal effect to be given to the Statutes at Large and the United States Code is established by statute (1 U.S.C. 112, 204).]
AN ACTTo direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support research on opioid addiction, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS. (a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act” or the “EFFORT Act”. (b) [42 U.S.C. 1862u note] Findings.—The Congress finds that— (1) research gaps currently exist in the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction; (2) the National Science Foundation’s research on opioid addiction has increased understanding of the neuroscience of addiction, substance abuse intervention, the role of illicit supply networks, the secondary effects on families, the use of technology to address the opioid epidemic, and options for alternative, non-addictive therapeutics for pain; and (3) the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have recognized that fundamental questions in basic, clinical, and translational research would benefit greatly from multidisciplinary approaches and collaboration.
SEC. 2. [42 U.S.C. 1862u] NSF SUPPORT OF RESEARCH ON OPIOID ADDICTION. The Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall support merit-reviewed and competitively awarded research on the science of opioid addiction.