Grants may pay for new ways to spot drug use, including waste water testing
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.”
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.
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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