Sec. 7. Study on treatment infrastructure
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Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall initiate an evaluation, and submit to Congress a report, of the in-patient and outpatient treatment capacity, availability, and needs of the United States, which shall include— the capacity of acute residential or inpatient detoxification programs; the capacity of inpatient clinical stabilization programs, transitional residential support services, and residential rehabilitation programs; the capacity of demographic specific residential or inpatient treatment programs, such as those designed for pregnant women or adolescents; geographical differences of the availability of residential and outpatient treatment and recovery options for substance use disorders across the continuum of care; 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; the number of patients in residential and specialty outpatient treatment services for substance use disorders; and an assessment of the need for residential and outpatient treatment for substance use disorders across the continuum of care.