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Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016

114th Congress · Approved Jul 22, 2016 · 130 Stat. 695

An Act

To authorize the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to address the prescription opioid abuse and heroin use crisis, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. Short Title; Table of Contents.

(a)
Short Title.— This Act may be cited as the “Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016”.
(b)
Table of Contents.— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

TITLE I— PREVENTION AND EDUCATION

Sec. 101. Task force on pain management.

Sec. 102. Awareness campaigns.

Sec. 103. Community-based coalition enhancement grants to address local drug crises.

Sec. 104. Information materials and resources to prevent addiction related to youth sports injuries.

Sec. 105. Assisting veterans with military emergency medical training to meet requirement for becoming civilian health care professionals.

Sec. 106. FDA opioid action plan.

Sec. 107. Improving access to overdose treatment.

Sec. 108. NIH opioid research.

Sec. 109. National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Reauthorization.

Sec. 110. Opioid overdose reversal medication access and education grant programs.

TITLE II— LAW ENFORCEMENT AND TREATMENT

Sec. 201. Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Grant Program.

Sec. 202. First responder training.

Sec. 203. Prescription drug take back expansion.

TITLE III— TREATMENT AND RECOVERY

Sec. 301. Evidence-based prescription opioid and heroin treatment and interventions demonstration.

Sec. 302. Building communities of recovery.

Sec. 303. Medication-assisted treatment for recovery from addiction.

TITLE IV— ADDRESSING COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES

Sec. 401. GAO report on recovery and collateral consequences.

TITLE V— ADDICTION AND TREATMENT SERVICES FOR WOMEN, FAMILIES, AND VETERANS

Sec. 501. Improving treatment for pregnant and postpartum women.

Sec. 502. Veterans treatment courts.

Sec. 503. Infant plan of safe care.

Sec. 504. GAO report on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).

TITLE VI— INCENTIVIZING STATE COMPREHENSIVE INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS PRESCRIPTION OPIOID ABUSE

Sec. 601. State demonstration grants for comprehensive opioid abuse response.

TITLE VII— MISCELLANEOUS

Sec. 701. Grant accountability and evaluations.

Sec. 702. Partial fills of schedule II controlled substances.

Sec. 703. Good samaritan assessment.

Sec. 704. Programs to prevent prescription drug abuse under Medicare parts C and D.

Sec. 705. Excluding abuse-deterrent formulations of prescription drugs from the Medicaid additional rebate requirement for new formulations of prescription drugs.

Sec. 706. Limiting disclosure of predictive modeling and other analytics technologies to identify and prevent waste, fraud, and abuse.

Sec. 707. Medicaid Improvement Fund.

Sec. 708. Sense of the Congress regarding treatment of substance abuse epidemics.

TITLE VIII— KINGPIN DESIGNATION IMPROVEMENT

Sec. 801. Protection of classified information in Federal court challenges relating to designations under the Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.

TITLE IX— DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Sec. 901. Short title.

Sec. 902. Definitions.

Subtitle A— Opioid Therapy and Pain Management

Sec. 911. Improvement of opioid safety measures by Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 912. Strengthening of joint working group on pain management of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense.

Sec. 913. Review, investigation, and report on use of opioids in treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 914. Mandatory disclosure of certain veteran information to State controlled substance monitoring programs.

Sec. 915. Elimination of copayment requirement for veterans receiving opioid antagonists or education on use of opioid antagonists.

Subtitle B— Patient Advocacy

Sec. 921. Community meetings on improving care furnished by Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 922. Improvement of awareness of patient advocacy program and patient bill of rights of Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 923. Comptroller General report on patient advocacy program of Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 924. Establishment of Office of Patient Advocacy of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Subtitle C— Complementary and Integrative Health

Sec. 931. Expansion of research and education on and delivery of complementary and integrative health to veterans.

Sec. 932. Expansion of research and education on and delivery of complementary and integrative health to veterans.

Sec. 933. Pilot program on integration of complementary and integrative health and related issues for veterans and family members of veterans.

Subtitle D— Fitness of Health Care Providers

Sec. 941. Additional requirements for hiring of health care providers by Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sec. 942. Provision of information on health care providers of Department of Veterans Affairs to State medical boards.

Sec. 943. Report on compliance by Department of Veterans Affairs with reviews of health care providers leaving the Department or transferring to other facilities.

Subtitle E— Other Matters

Sec. 951. Modification to limitation on awards and bonuses.