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Substance-abuse budget: opioid grants, 988 and federal admin caps drive fund shifts
Summary
Legislative analysts and the Department of Health and Welfare explained requests tied to opioid response grants, Millennium Fund programs and 988 crisis-line startup work; the department asked to reshuffle fund sources to comply with federal administrative caps on the substance-use block grant.
Alex Williamson of the Legislative Services Office presented the Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention program budget (pages 2-085). The division administers treatment and prevention programs statewide, including the state opioid response grant and Millennium Fund disbursements for community-based recovery services.
Recent and ongoing grants: Williamson said the state received an $8 million state opioid response grant in FY2023 that was then made ongoing in FY2024. The division also received COVID-relief appropriations in 2022 targeted at enhanced substance-abuse treatment (for PPE, telehealth, and related supports) and a $2.5 million one-time prevention appropriation in FY2024. In FY2025 the legislature appropriated $1.6 million ongoing to the division, including $1.35 million for community-based recovery centers and $250,000…
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