Texas Receives $27.4M Grant To Treat Opioid Addiction

The grant will pay for HHSC officials to target high-risk individuals such as those who live in major metropolitan areas, pregnant women and those in postpartum and those with a history of misusing opioids prescriptions.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has won a $27.4 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to prevent and treat addiction to opioids.

The additional funding will be used for training, treatment, prevention, support during recovery and provide help to about 14,000 residents over a two-year period, according to HHSC officials.

The grant will pay for HHSC officials to target high-risk individuals such as those who live in major metropolitan areas, pregnant women and those in postpartum and those with a history of misusing opioids prescriptions.

Other populations that will receive focus for opioid addiction and prevention are people being treated for chronic pain, veterans and those who reside in rural areas with high rate of the use of opioids.

Other activities to be funded by the grant are expanding access to treatments sites and eliminate the current wait for treating opioid addition.

Funding will also be used for improving training and technical assistance to providers and prescribers, improving recovery services, and enhancing outreach activities through coordination of state agency partners and crisis teams at local mental health authorities.

This article originally published by Strategic Partnerships, Inc.