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H.R. 4982 — what changed

Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2016

From Introduced in House to Reported in House. 1 section amended between Introduced in House and Reported in House.

Sec. 2 Study on treatment infrastructure

changed Not later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall initiate an evaluation, and submit to Congress a report, of the in-patient inpatient and outpatient treatment capacity, availability, and needs of the United States, which shall include, to the extent data is are available—

(1)
the capacity of acute residential or inpatient detoxification programs;
(2)
the capacity of inpatient clinical stabilization programs, transitional residential support services, and residential rehabilitation programs;
(3)
the capacity of demographic specific residential or inpatient treatment programs, such as those designed for pregnant women or adolescents;
(4)
geographical differences of the availability of residential and outpatient treatment and recovery options for substance use disorders across the continuum of care;
(5)
the availability of residential and outpatient treatment programs that offer treatment options based on reliable scientific evidence of efficacy for the treatment of substance use disorders, including the use of Food and Drug Administration-approved medicines and evidence-based nonpharmacological therapies;
(6)
changed the number of patients in residential and specialty outpatient treatment services for substance use disorders; anddisorders;
(7)
changed an assessment of the need for residential and outpatient treatment for substance use disorders across the continuum of care.care;
(8)
added the availability of residential and outpatient treatment programs to American Indians and Alaska Natives through an Indian health program (as defined by section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603)); and
(9)
added the barriers (including technological barriers) at the Federal, State, and local levels to real-time reporting of de-identified information on drug overdoses and ways to overcome such barriers.