Student and Student Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act

Bill: 117-hr-7246
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2022-03-28
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2022-03-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Student and Student Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act</b> <strong>or the Student Athlete Opioid Prevention Act</strong></p> This bill authorizes a program through which the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration may award grants or other assistance for preventing and addressing the misuse of opioids and other medications used for treating pain or injury recovery among students and student athletes. Entities eligible for the grants include states, nonprofits, and drug-free community coalitions.

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7246 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 28, 2022 Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Ms. Davids of Kansas , Mr. Gonzalez of Ohio , and Mr. Bacon ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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. Short title This Act may be cited as the Student and Student Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act or the Student Athlete Opioid Prevention Act . 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: 506B. Grants for student and student athlete opioid misuse prevention (a) In general The Assistant Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, may award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to eligible entities 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. (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. (c) Use of Funds Amounts received through an award under this section may be used for any of the following: (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 responsibility to create their own anti-drug abuse education programs; (B) school-based programs that are focused 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 substances, 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 substances, which programs may include— (A) such programs through youth sports organizations; (B) community-based prevention programs 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 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. (3) Engaging youth, high school, or collegiate athletic and recreation programs and associations 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 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 focused 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 conduct 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 management. (5) Training and educating State and local officials, youth athletics organizers, school administrators 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 comprehensive pain management solutions, and prevention 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 evaluations of the programs funded under this section and other effective programs to prevent and address 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 programs. (2) Annual report The Assistant Secretary shall annually submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, a report on the programs evaluated under paragraph (1)(A) and the strategies developed under paragraph (1)(B). (e) Definition In this section the term, drug-free community coalition means a community-based coalition 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). .