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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3940 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Assistant Secretary 

for Mental Health and Substance Use to award grants, contracts, and 

cooperative agreements for planning, establishing, or administering programs to prevent and address the misuse of opioids, related drugs, 

and other drugs commonly used in pain management or injury recovery, 

as well as the co-use of one or more such drugs with other substances, 

by students and student athletes, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 28, 2022 

Mrs. SHAHEEN (for herself and Ms. HASSAN) introduced the following bill; 

which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the 

Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance 

Use to award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for planning, establishing, or administering programs to prevent and address the misuse of opioids, 

related drugs, and other drugs commonly used in pain 

management or injury recovery, as well as the co-use 

of one or more such drugs with other substances, by 

students and student athletes, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Student and Student 

3 Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR OPIOID MISUSE PREVENTION. 

5 Part A of title V of the Public Health Service Act 

6 (42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq.) is amended by adding at the 

7 end the following: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 506B. GRANTS FOR STUDENT AND STUDENT ATHLETE 

9 OPIOID MISUSE PREVENTION. 

10 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary, in con11 sultation with the Secretary of Education, may award 

12 grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to eligible 

13 entities for planning, establishing, or administering pro14 grams to prevent and address the misuse of opioids, re15 lated drugs, and other drugs commonly used in pain man16 agement or injury recovery, as well as the co-use of one 

17 or more such drugs with other substances, by students and 

18 student athletes. 

19 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 

20 under this section, an entity shall be— 

21 ‘‘(1) a State or other public entity; 

22 ‘‘(2) a nonprofit organization; or 

23 ‘‘(3) a drug-free community coalition. 

24 ‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts received through an 

25 award under this section may be used for any of the fol26 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(1) Carrying out one or more school-based 

2 programs concerning the dangers of the misuse of, 

3 and addiction to, opioids, related drugs, and other 

4 drugs commonly used in pain management or injury 

5 recovery, as well as the co-use of one or more such 

6 drugs with other substances, which programs may 

7 include— 

8 ‘‘(A) initiatives that give students the re9 sponsibility to create their own anti-drug abuse 

10 education programs; 

11 ‘‘(B) school-based programs that are fo12 cused on school districts with high or increasing 

13 rates of misuse of, and addiction to, opioids, 

14 and targeted at populations that are most at 

15 risk to start misusing such drugs, including 

16 schools that do not have a certified athletic 

17 trainer on staff; and 

18 ‘‘(C) school-based prevention programs 

19 that are focused on student athletes and the 

20 risk of misuse of, and addiction to, opioids, as 

21 well as the co-use of opioids with other sub22 stances, as part of injury recovery and pain 

23 management. 

24 ‘‘(2) Carrying out community-based misuse and 

25 addiction prevention programs relating to opioids, 


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1 related drugs, and other drugs commonly used in 

2 pain management or injury recovery, as well as the 

3 co-use of one or more such drugs with other sub4 stances, which programs may include— 

5 ‘‘(A) such programs through youth sports 

6 organizations; 

7 ‘‘(B) community-based prevention pro8 grams that are focused on populations within 

9 the community that are most at risk for misuse 

10 of, and addiction to, opioids; and 

11 ‘‘(C) community-based programs that are 

12 focused on youth athletes and the risk of mis13 use of, and addiction to, opioids, as well as the 

14 co-use of opioids with other substances, as part 

15 of injury recovery and pain management. 

16 ‘‘(3) Engaging youth, high school, or collegiate 

17 athletic and recreation programs and associations 

18 concerning the dangers of the misuse of, and addic19 tion to, opioids, related drugs, and other drugs com20 monly used in pain management or injury recovery, 

21 as well as the co-use of one or more such drugs with 

22 other substances, which may include— 

23 ‘‘(A) initiatives that give student athletes 

24 the responsibility to create their own anti-drug 

25 abuse education programs for their schools; and 


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1 ‘‘(B) collegiate-based programs that are fo2 cused on collegiate athletes, including club 

3 sports and recreation sports, and the risk for 

4 misuse of, and addiction to, opioids, as well as 

5 the co-use of opioids with other substances, as 

6 part of injury recovery and pain management. 

7 ‘‘(4) Assisting local government entities to con8 duct appropriate prevention activities relating to 

9 youth and the risk for misuse of, and addiction to, 

10 opioids, as well as the co-use of opioids with other 

11 substances, as part of injury recovery and pain man12 agement. 

13 ‘‘(5) Training and educating State and local of14 ficials, youth athletics organizers, school administra15 tors and staff, teachers, athletic directors, athletic 

16 trainers, coaches, collegiate administrators, directors 

17 of campus recreation, and campus-based medical 

18 providers, on the signs of misuse of opioids and the 

19 options for treatment, including holistic and com20 prehensive pain management solutions, and preven21 tion of such misuse. 

22 ‘‘(d) EVALUATION; REPORTING.— 

23 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary, in 

24 consultation with the heads of other relevant Federal 

25 agencies, shall— 


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1 ‘‘(A) conduct or support periodic evalua2 tions of the programs funded under this section 

3 and other effective programs to prevent and ad4 dress misuse of, and addiction to, opioids, re5 lated drugs, and other drugs commonly used for 

6 pain management and injury recovery; and 

7 ‘‘(B) develop strategies for disseminating 

8 information about and implementing such pro9 grams. 

10 ‘‘(2) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Assistant Sec11 retary shall annually submit to the Committee on 

12 Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judi13 ciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 

14 House of Representatives, and the Committee on 

15 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the Com16 mittee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Ap17 propriations of the Senate, a report on the programs 

18 evaluated under paragraph (1)(A) and the strategies 

19 developed under paragraph (1)(B). 

20 ‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—In this section the term ‘drug21 free community coalition’ means a community-based coali22 tion that is a current or former recipient of a grant under 

23 section 1032 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. 

24 ‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To carry out this section, 

2 there are authorized to be appropriated— 

3 ‘‘(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and 

4 ‘‘(B) such sums as may be necessary for 

5 each succeeding fiscal year. 

6 ‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amount authorized 

7 to be appropriated by paragraph (1) for a fiscal 

8 year, not more than $500,000 shall (subject to the 

9 availability of appropriations) be used to carry out 

10 subsection (d).’’. 

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