On October 28, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra released the agency’s new Overdose Prevention Strategy, which aims to increase access to care and services for individuals with a Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and their families.
On August 5, the Biden administration announced it would invest roughly $90 million to assist rural communities in combatting opioid use disorders (OUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD) and improve access to maternal and obstetrics care.
We know that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the addiction crisis, with new data reporting the highest number of fatal overdoses ever recorded, exceeding 93,000 overdose deaths[1] in 2020.
On August 27, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced that it was distributing the first round of funding for the two-year State Opioid Response (SOR) and Tribal Opioid Response (TOR) grant programs.