Sec. 11. Reinvest funds in supportive programs
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a grant program to support State and local efforts to expand access to substance abuse treatment, support harm-reduction services, and reduce the criminalization of individuals who use drugs by supporting the development or expansion of pre-arrest diversion programs. The grant program shall enhance programs that expand access to substance use treatment, enhance the safety of individuals who use drugs, and reduce the entry of individuals who use drugs into the criminal legal system.
An eligible entity for a grant under this paragraph shall be an existing agency or organization, whether government or community-based that are engaged in activities designed to promote the health and welfare of people who use drugs, facilitate the voluntary treatment of individuals with substance use disorder, provide assistance to individuals as an alternative to criminal prosecution, or provide alternatives to law enforcement first response services. A law enforcement entity or program that is led principally by a law enforcement entity are not eligible for grants provided by the program.
An eligible entity under this paragraph may use grant funds for purposes of increasing access to— low barrier substance use disorder treatment that is evidence-informed, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, patient-centered, and non-judgmental (including medication assisted treatment); harm reduction programs and systems for connecting individuals to harm reduction interventions, including but not limited to overdose prevention education, access to naloxone hydrochloride and sterile syringes, stimulant-specific drug education and outreach, drug-checking services; peer support and recovery services; non-police crisis-intervention and emergency response programs; pre-arrest diversion programs; and transitional, supportive, and permanent housing for persons with substance use disorder.
Section 101 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. 801 ) is amended by striking paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and
(7)and inserting the following new paragraphs: Evidence-based regulations and education focused on protecting the health and safety of individuals who use controlled substances are necessary to ensure the general welfare of American people. Since the enactment of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 the United States has expended substantial sums of funding on controlling personal consumption of controlled substances while prohibiting many services that could help ensure the safety of the consumer drug products in common use and safer conditions for individuals who use drugs. The United States has spent over $1 trillion on drug control since enactment of the Act and continues to spend over $47 million annually. Drug offenses are the leading cause of arrest in the United States, remaining largely unchanged from 2010–2019, during which time over 10 million arrests were made for drug possession. Black individuals are arrested at rates far higher than their representation in the population and in far greater numbers than individuals in other demographic groups. Drug arrests have significant collateral consequences, interfering or denying access to education, employment, housing, child custody, immigration, and public benefits. Drug control strategies focused on criminalizing personal use of drugs have not achieved reductions in the availability, prevalence of use, prices, or incidence of drug overdose. The criminalization of people who use drugs reduces the availability of resources for evidence-based compassionate drug education, addiction health services, including substance abuse treatment and medication assisted treatment, and other services focused on the health and safety of consumers. Federal regulation of controlled substances pursuant to this subchapter shall promote the health, safety and welfare of individuals who use drugs and seek to prevent the harms of criminalizing individual users of drugs. .
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