SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Education: establish grant program to facilitate peer-to-peer suicide prevention programs for middle and high school students (see H.R. 9036), H8314 [29SE]

Dept. of HHS: award grants to eligible entities to provide community-based mental health services in communities in which active shooter event or incident of targeted violence occurred (see H.R. 7537), H4448 [18AP]

——— reauthorize certain mental health programs (see S. 4170), S2419 [10MY]

Drugs: study certain exemptions for treatment of opioid use disorder through treatment programs during coronavirus emergency and modernize process for obtaining methadone (see S. 3629), S647 [10FE]

Mental health: establish office to coordinate work on behavioral health crisis care and improve National Suicide Prevention Lifeline program (see S. 4871), S4638 [15SE]

——— reauthorize and improve program for youth mental health awareness training grants (see S. 4461), S3159 [23JN] (see H.R. 8722), H7712 [16AU]

——— require States receiving block grant for substance use prevention and treatment to describe efforts to promote work to improve mental health and well-being (see H.R. 8523), H7254 [27JY]

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: improve implementation (see H.R. 7116), H3826 [17MR] (see H.R. 7232), H3894 [28MR]

Women: extend residential treatment program for pregnant and postpartum women pilot program (see S. 5285), S7252 [15DE]

Remarks in House

Drugs: study certain exemptions for treatment of opioid use disorder through treatment programs during coronavirus emergency and modernize process for obtaining methadone (H.R. 6279), E1211 [2DE]

Funding, H6876 [19JY]

Remarks in Senate

Drugs: study certain exemptions for treatment of opioid use disorder through treatment programs during coronavirus emergency and modernize process for obtaining methadone (S. 3629), S686 [15FE]