Grants may pay for new ways to spot drug use, including waste water testing
To reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, and for other purposes, section 103, Sec. 103.
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Grants may pay for new ways to spot drug use, including waste water testing
The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 103 in the PDF
What the document says
“To carry out innovative projects for grantees to detect, identify, and rapidly respond to controlled substance misuse, abuse, and overdoses, and associated risk factors, including changes in patterns of such controlled substance use.”
The section rewrites section 392A(a)(3)(A) of the Public Health Service Act. The rewritten paragraph names innovative projects to detect and respond to controlled substance misuse as a purpose for which grants may be made, and the sentence that follows it names wastewater surveillance as an example, if proven to support actionable prevention strategies and consistent with Federal and State privacy laws.
What the document actually says
“To carry out innovative projects for grantees to detect, identify, and rapidly respond to controlled substance misuse, abuse, and overdoses, and associated risk factors, including changes in patterns of such controlled substance use.”
That sentence, in plain words
Grant money can pay for new kinds of projects. The projects find drug use and answer it fast. They also look at what puts people at risk.
What this is about
One example named in the law is testing waste water. Waste water is what goes down the drain. It can show what drugs are being used in a town.
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Reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, Public Law 119-44, sec. 103, 139 Stat. 670 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ44/html/PLAW-119publ44.htm
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“Grants may pay for new ways to spot drug use, including waste water testing,” Reauthorize certain programs that provide for opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery, section 103, Sec. 103. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-44/proposal/sec103-innovative-projects/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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