Student and Student Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act

Student and Student Athlete Opioid Misuse Prevention Act

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to support programs for schools, athletic programs, or communities to prevent prescription drug misuse and addiction related to opioids and other medications for pain or injury recovery. SAMHSA must report annually on federal programs to prevent pain medication misuse and addiction.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5992 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5992

To establish a grant program relating to the prevention of student and 
                     student athlete opioid misuse.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 1, 2018

Ms. Esty of Connecticut (for herself, Mr. MacArthur, and Mr. Larson of 
 Connecticut) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a grant program relating to the prevention of student and 
                     student athlete opioid misuse.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Student and Student Athlete Opioid 
Misuse Prevention Act''.

SEC. 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:

``SEC. 506B. GRANTS FOR STUDENT AND STUDENT ATHLETE OPIOID MISUSE 
              PREVENTION.

    ``(a) Authority.--The Assistant Secretary, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Education, may make grants to, and enter into contracts 
and cooperative agreements with, public and nonprofit private entities, 
including States and drug-free community coalitions, to enable such 
entities--
            ``(1) to carry out school-based programs concerning the 
        dangers of the misuse of and addiction to prescription opioids, 
        related drugs, and other prescribed drugs commonly used in pain 
        management or injury recovery, including initiatives that give 
        students the responsibility to create their own anti-drug abuse 
        education programs for their schools;
            ``(2) to carry out community-based misuse and addiction 
        prevention programs relating to prescription opioids, related 
        drugs, and other prescription drugs commonly used in pain 
        management or injury recovery, including youth sports 
        organizations; and
            ``(3) to carry out school, collegiate, and community-based 
        engagement of youth, high school, or collegiate athletic and 
        recreation programs and associations concerning the dangers of 
        the misuse of and addiction to prescription opioids, related 
        drugs, and other prescription drugs commonly used in pain 
        management or injury recovery, including initiatives that give 
        student athletes the responsibility to create their own anti-
        drug abuse education programs for their schools.
    ``(b) Use of Funds.--Amounts made available under a grant, 
contract, or cooperative agreement under subsection (a) shall be used 
for planning, establishing, or administering prevention programs 
relating to prescription opioid, related drugs, and other drugs 
commonly used in pain management or injury recovery.
    ``(c) Use of Funds.--Amounts provided to an entity under this 
section may be used--
            ``(1) to carry out school-based programs that are focused 
        on school districts with high or increasing rates of misuse of 
        and addiction to prescription and nonprescription opioids, and 
        targeted at populations that are most at risk to start misusing 
        such drugs;
            ``(2) to carry out community-based prevention programs that 
        are focused on populations within the community that are most 
        at risk for misuse of and addiction to prescription and 
        nonprescription opioids;
            ``(3) to carry out school-based prevention programs that 
        are focused on student athletes and the risk of misuse of and 
        addiction to prescription and nonprescription opioids as part 
        of injury recovery and pain management;
            ``(4) to carry out community-based programs that are 
        focused on youth athletes and the risk of misuse of and 
        addiction to prescription and nonprescription opioids as part 
        of injury recovery and pain management;
            ``(5) to carry out collegiate-based programs that are 
        focused on collegiate athletes, including club sports and 
        recreation sports, and the risk for misuse of and addiction to 
        prescription and nonprescription opioids as part of injury 
        recovery and pain management;
            ``(6) to assist local government entities to conduct 
        appropriate prevention activities relating to youth and the 
        risk for misuse of and addiction to prescription and 
        nonprescription opioids as part of injury recovery and pain 
        management; and
            ``(7) to train and educate State and local officials; youth 
        athletics organizers and coaches; school administrators, 
        teachers, athletic directors, coaches, and athletic trainers; 
        collegiate administrators, athletic directors, directors of 
        campus recreation, coaches, athletic trainers, and campus-based 
        medical providers, on the signs of misuse of prescription and 
        nonprescription opioids and the options for treatment and 
        prevention of such misuse.
    ``(d) Allocation and Report.--
            ``(1) Prevention program allocation.--Not more than 
        $500,000 of the amount appropriated in each fiscal year to 
        carry out this section shall be made available to the Assistant 
        Secretary, acting in consultation with other Federal agencies, 
        to support and conduct periodic analyses and evaluations of 
        effective prevention programs for misuse of and addiction to 
        opioids, related drugs, and other drugs commonly used for pain 
        management and the development of appropriate strategies for 
        disseminating information about and implementing such programs.
            ``(2) Report.--The Assistant Secretary shall annually 
        prepare and submit to the Committee on Health, Education, 
        Labor, and Pensions, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the 
        Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the Committee on 
        Energy and Commerce, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the 
        Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, a 
        report on the prevention programs and development of strategies 
        described in paragraph (1), containing, as appropriate, the 
        results of the analyses and evaluations conducted under 
        paragraph (1).
    ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section--
            ``(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2018; and
            ``(2) such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding 
        fiscal year.''.
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