Title: Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2018
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2018
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report on inpatient and outpatient treatment capacity, availability, and needs, including detoxification programs, clinical stabilization programs, transitional residential support services, rehabilitation programs, treatment programs for pregnant women or adolescents, and treatment through Indian health programs. The report must include the barriers to real-time reporting of drug overdoses at the federal, state, and local level and ways to overcome those barriers.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3048 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3048

To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to evaluate and 
      report on the in-patient and outpatient treatment capacity, 
             availability, and needs of the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 11, 2018

  Mr. Manchin (for himself and Mr. Sullivan) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to evaluate and 
      report on the in-patient and outpatient treatment capacity, 
             availability, and needs of the United States.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Examining Opioid Treatment 
Infrastructure Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. STUDY ON TREATMENT INFRASTRUCTURE.

    Not later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall initiate an 
evaluation of, and submit to Congress a report on, the in-patient and 
outpatient treatment capacity, availability, and needs of the United 
States, including, to the extent data are available--
            (1) the capacity of acute residential or in-patient 
        detoxification programs;
            (2) the capacity of in-patient clinical stabilization 
        programs, transitional residential support services, and 
        residential rehabilitation programs;
            (3) the capacity of demographic specific residential or in-
        patient treatment programs, such as those designed for pregnant 
        women or adolescents;
            (4) geographical differences of the availability of 
        residential and outpatient treatment and recovery options for 
        substance use disorders across the continuum of care;
            (5) the availability of residential and outpatient 
        treatment programs that offer treatment options based on 
        reliable scientific evidence of efficacy for the treatment of 
        substance use disorders, including the use of Food and Drug 
        Administration-approved medicines and evidence-based 
        nonpharmacological therapies;
            (6) the number of patients in residential and specialty 
        outpatient treatment services for substance use disorders;
            (7) an assessment of the need for residential and 
        outpatient treatment for substance use disorders across the 
        continuum of care;
            (8) the availability of residential and outpatient 
        treatment programs to American Indians and Alaska Natives 
        through an Indian health program (as defined by section 4 of 
        the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603)); and
            (9) the barriers (including technological barriers) at the 
        Federal, State, and local levels to real-time reporting of de-
        identified information on drug overdoses and ways to overcome 
        such barriers.
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