---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300x–34"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300x–34"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300x-34"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Block Grants"
  - "Part B — Block Grants Regarding Mental Health and Substance Use"
  - "Subpart ii — block grants for substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery services"
---

# §300x–34. Definitions


For purposes of this subpart:

- (1) The term “authorized activities”, subject to [section 300x–31 of this title](/usc/42/300x–31.md), means the activities described in [section 300x–21(b) of this title](/usc/42/300x–21.md?p=b).
- (2) The term “[funding agreement](/usc/42/300x–8.md?p=2)”, with respect to a grant under [section 300x–21 of this title](/usc/42/300x–21.md) to a [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), means that the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may make such a grant only if the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) makes the agreement involved.
- (3) The term “prevention activities”, subject to [section 300x–31 of this title](/usc/42/300x–31.md), means activities to prevent [substance use disorders](#4).
- (4) The term “substance use disorder” means the recurrent use of alcohol or other [drugs](/usc/42/11851.md?p=4) that causes clinically significant impairment.
- (5) The term “treatment activities” means [treatment services](#7) and, subject to [section 300x–31 of this title](/usc/42/300x–31.md), [authorized activities](#1) that are related to [treatment services](#7).
- (6) The term “treatment facility” means an entity that provides [treatment services](#7).
- (7) The term “treatment services”, subject to [section 300x–31 of this title](/usc/42/300x–31.md), means [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) for [substance use disorders](#4).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XIX, § 1934, as added Pub. L. 102–321, title II, § 202, July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 402; amended Pub. L. 114–255, div. B, title VIII, § 8002(j), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1232; Pub. L. 117–328, div. FF, title I, § 1241(a)(9), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5678.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1934 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 300y–24 of this title and subsequently omitted from the Code.

### Amendments

2022—Par. (4). Pub. L. 117–328 amended par. (4) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (4) read as follows: “The term ‘substance abuse’ means the abuse of alcohol or other drugs.”

2016—Pars. (3), (7). Pub. L. 114–255 substituted “substance use disorders” for “substance abuse”.