SAMHSA Awards Grants to Boost Substance Abuse Treatment Programs

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has announced several grant awards to help states and organizations improve substance abuse treatment. A summary of the awards appears below.

• SAMHSA has awarded $3.8 million to bolster Addiction Technology Transfer Centers, a program administered by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, to provide "state-of-the-art" education and training to health care professionals, state and local governments and community groups (SAMHSA release, 10/22).
• SAMHSA's CSAT has awarded $1.04 million in one-year "action grants" to community substance abuse programs in a number of states to "stimulate adoption of exemplary treatment practices" (SAMHSA release, 10/22).
• SAMHSA's CSAT has awarded about $3 million in grants to substance abuse programs in Florida, California, New York, South Carolina, New Mexico and Massachusetts -- part of the Comprehensive Community Treatment Program -- to allow them to conduct studies to "generate new knowledge" about "effective, innovative" treatment (SAMHSA release, 10/19).
• SAMHSA's CSAT has awarded $2.5 million in grants under the Practice Improvement Collaboratives program to help community substance abuse providers and researchers identify "local needs" and develop "appropriate treatment strategies" to improve addiction services (SAMHSA release, 10/19).