Behavioral Health Business February 12, 2024
Five U.S. senators announced a bill to strengthen grant programming that supports addiction treatment in state prisons.
The Supporting Treatment and Recovery Over Narcotics for Growth, Empowerment, and Rehabilitation (STRONGER) Act reauthorizes and improves the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) program. It adds more funding for training the state officials who oversee these programs and beefs up clinical quality requirements.
“We should encourage our prisons to create a path for inmates to rebuild their lives free of addiction,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said in a news release. “By starting the road to recovery while incarcerated and continuing it afterward, we are giving these Americans a second chance for a new life.”
If passed, the STRONGER Act would...
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