{"id":24893,"date":"2019-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/05\/white-house-announces-nearly-2-billion-in-grants-to-fight-opioid-epidemic\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:06:10","slug":"white-house-announces-nearly-2-billion-in-grants-to-fight-opioid-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/05\/white-house-announces-nearly-2-billion-in-grants-to-fight-opioid-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Announces Nearly &#36;2 Billion in Grants to Fight Opioid Epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SAMHSA will provide &#36;932 million to every state, some U.S. territories for treatment, recovery programs<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Sept. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Nearly $2 billion in grants to help fight the U.S. opioid epidemic will be handed out to states and local governments, the White House says.<\/p>\n<p>The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will provide $932 million to every state and some U.S. territories for opioid addiction treatment and recovery, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A new, three-year program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help state and local governments better track overdose data will receive $900 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the first year, 47 states and the District of Columbia will be among the jurisdictions sharing $301 million, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/aff5fa628c6146dab958f21ad868ca7a\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAMHSA will provide &#36;932 million to every state, some U.S. territories for treatment, recovery programs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-24893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}