Biden administration awards $1.5 billion to fight opioid crisis

The Biden medication announced Friday it is awarding $1.5 cardinal successful grants to assistance states, territories and tribal lands combat the opioid crisis.

The grants volition grow entree to attraction and betterment enactment services, let states to put successful amended overdose acquisition and summation the accessibility of FDA-approved naloxone products, which are utilized to assistance reverse an opioid overdose.

Last year, much than 107,000 radical died aft overdosing successful the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fig marked a 15% summation successful overdose-related deaths from 2020.

Members of the Biden administration, including Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh, attended a Recovery Month Summit Friday to amusement enactment for individuals successful betterment and sermon the assistance funding.

"As idiosyncratic successful semipermanent recovery, I cognize however important entree to intelligence wellness and substance usage upset attraction is," Walsh wrote connected Twitter.

More than $104 cardinal successful backing volition specifically purpose to enactment agrarian communities, which person been particularly hard-hit by the opioid crisis. It volition beryllium allocated for workforce training, acquisition and outreach arsenic good arsenic caller sites for medication-assisted treatment.

Biden besides called for an concern of much than $42.5 cardinal successful backing for National Drug Control Agencies arsenic portion of his 2023 fiscal-year budget. The concern would people a $3.2 cardinal summation from the erstwhile year.