Sec. 1505. Preventing overdoses of controlled substances
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Part J of title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b et seq.), as amended by section 504, is further amended by inserting after section 392A the following: The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (referred to in this section as the Director ), using the authority provided to the Director under section 392, may— to the extent practicable, carry out and expand any prevention activity described in paragraph (2); provide training and technical assistance to States, localities, and Indian Tribes to carry out any such activity; and award grants to States, localities, and Indian Tribes for the purpose of carrying out any such activity.
A prevention activity described in this paragraph is an activity to improve the efficiency and use of a new or currently operating prescription drug monitoring program, such as— encouraging all authorized users (as specified by the State or other entity) to register with and use the program; enabling such users to access any data updates in as close to real-time as practicable; providing for a mechanism for the program to notify authorized users of any potential misuse or abuse of controlled substances and any detection of inappropriate prescribing or dispensing practices relating to such substances; encouraging the analysis of prescription drug monitoring data for purposes of providing de-identified, aggregate reports based on such analysis to State public health agencies, State alcohol and drug agencies, State licensing boards, and other appropriate State agencies, as permitted under applicable Federal and State law and the policies of the prescription drug monitoring program and not containing any protected health information, to prevent inappropriate prescribing, drug diversion, or abuse and misuse of controlled substances, and to facilitate better coordination among agencies; enhancing interoperability between the program and any health information technology (including certified health information technology), including by integrating program data into such technology; updating program capabilities to respond to technological innovation for purposes of appropriately addressing the occurrence and evolution of controlled substance overdoses; developing or enhancing data exchange with other sources such as the Medicaid agency, the Medicare program, pharmacy benefit managers, coroners’ reports, and workers’ compensation data; facilitating and encouraging data exchange between the program and the prescription drug monitoring programs of other States; enhancing data collection and quality, including improving patient matching and proactively monitoring data quality; and providing prescriber and dispenser practice tools, including prescriber practice insight reports for practitioners to review their prescribing patterns in comparison to such patters of other practitioners in the specialty.
The Director may award grants to States, localities, and Indian Tribes— to carry out innovative projects for grantees to rapidly respond to controlled substance misuse, abuse, and overdoses, including changes in patterns of controlled substance use; and for any other evidence-based activity for preventing controlled substance misuse, abuse, and overdoses as the Director determines appropriate. The Director, in coordination with the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use and the National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory established under section 501A, as appropriate and applicable, may conduct studies and evaluations to address substance use disorders, including preventing substance use disorders or other related topics the Director determines appropriate.
Pursuant to section 102 of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, the Director may advance the education and awareness of prescribers and the public regarding the risk of abuse and misuse of prescription opioids. In this section— the term controlled substance has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act; and the term Indian Tribe has the meaning given the term Indian tribe in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
For purposes of carrying out this section, section 392A of this Act, and section 102 of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, there is authorized to be appropriated $486,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2024. .
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Preventing overdoses of controlled substances
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