SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Student and Student 
Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act’’ or the ‘‘Student 
Athlete Opioid Prevention Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR OPIOID MISUSE PREVENTION. 
Part A of title V of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 290aa et seq.) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 506B. GRANTS FOR STUDENT AND STUDENT ATHLETE 
OPIOID MISUSE PREVENTION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Education, may award 
grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to eligible 
entities for planning, establishing, or administering pro-
grams to prevent and address the misuse of opioids, re-
lated drugs, and other drugs commonly used in pain man-
agement or injury recovery, as well as the co-use of one 
or more such drugs with other substances, by students and 
student athletes. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, an entity shall be— 
‘‘(1) a State or other public entity; 
‘‘(2) a nonprofit organization; or 
‘‘(3) a drug-free community coalition. 
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‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts received through an 
award under this section may be used for any of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) Carrying out one or more school-based 
programs concerning the dangers of the misuse of, 
and addiction to, 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, which programs may 
include— 
‘‘(A) initiatives that give students the re-
sponsibility to create their own anti-drug abuse 
education programs; 
‘‘(B) school-based programs that are fo-
cused on school districts with high or increasing 
rates of misuse of, and addiction to, opioids, 
and targeted at populations that are most at 
risk to start misusing such drugs, including 
schools that do not have a certified athletic 
trainer on staff; and 
‘‘(C) school-based prevention programs 
that are focused on student athletes and the 
risk of misuse of, and addiction to, opioids, as 
well as the co-use of opioids with other sub-
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stances, as part of injury recovery and pain 
management. 
‘‘(2) Carrying out community-based misuse and 
addiction prevention programs relating to 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 sub-
stances, which programs may include— 
‘‘(A) such programs through youth sports 
organizations; 
‘‘(B) community-based prevention pro-
grams that are focused on populations within 
the community that are most at risk for misuse 
of and addiction to opioids; and 
‘‘(C) community-based programs that are 
focused on youth athletes and the risk of mis-
use of and addiction to opioids, as well as the 
co-use of opioids with other substances, as part 
of injury recovery and pain management. 
‘‘(3) Engaging youth, high school, or collegiate 
athletic and recreation programs and associations 
concerning the dangers of the misuse of and addic-
tion to opioids, related drugs, and other drugs com-
monly used in pain management or injury recovery, 
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as well as the co-use of one or more such drugs with 
other substances, which may include— 
‘‘(A) initiatives that give student athletes 
the responsibility to create their own anti-drug 
abuse education programs for their schools; and 
‘‘(B) collegiate-based programs that are fo-
cused on collegiate athletes, including club 
sports and recreation sports, and the risk for 
misuse of and addiction to opioids, as well as 
the co-use of opioids with other substances, as 
part of injury recovery and pain management. 
‘‘(4) Assisting local government entities to con-
duct appropriate prevention activities relating to 
youth and the risk for misuse of and addiction to 
opioids, as well as the co-use of opioids with other 
substances, as part of injury recovery and pain man-
agement. 
‘‘(5) Training and educating State and local of-
ficials, youth athletics organizers, school administra-
tors and staff, teachers, athletic directors, athletic 
trainers, coaches, collegiate administrators, directors 
of campus recreation, and campus-based medical 
providers, on the signs of misuse of opioids and the 
options for treatment, including holistic and com-
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prehensive pain management solutions, and preven-
tion of such misuse. 
‘‘(d) EVALUATION; REPORTING.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Assistant Secretary, in 
consultation with the heads of other relevant Federal 
agencies, shall— 
‘‘(A) conduct or support periodic evalua-
tions of the programs funded under this section 
and other effective programs to prevent and ad-
dress misuse of and addiction to opioids, related 
drugs, and other drugs commonly used for pain 
management and injury recovery; and 
‘‘(B) develop strategies for disseminating 
information about and implementing such pro-
grams. 
‘‘(2) ANNUAL
REPORT.—The Assistant Sec-
retary shall annually submit to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judi-
ciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives, and the Committee on 
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate, a report on the programs 
evaluated under paragraph (1)(A) and the strategies 
developed under paragraph (1)(B). 
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‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—In this section the term, ‘drug- 
free community coalition’ means a community-based coali-
tion that is a current or former recipient of a grant under 
section 1032 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To carry out this section, 
there are authorized to be appropriated— 
‘‘(A) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; and 
‘‘(B) such sums as may be necessary for 
each succeeding fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amount authorized 
to be appropriated by paragraph (1) for a fiscal 
year, not more than $500,000 shall (subject to the 
availability of appropriations) be used to carry out 
subsection (d).’’. 
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