Get Grants to Boost Opioid Treatment Services
Posted: April 8, 2019
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Summary
Universities and academic institutions can apply for grants to train medical students, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. This funding aims to increase the number of practitioners qualified to prescribe MAT and expand access to critical treatment services.
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The Substance Abuse andMental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance AbuseTreatment (CSAT), isaccepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2019 Provider’s Clinical SupportSystem – Universities (Short Title: PCSS-Universities) grants. The purpose of this program is toexpand/enhance access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services forpersons with an opioid use disorder (OUD) seeking or receiving MAT throughensuring the education and training of students in the medical, physicianassistant and nurse practitioner fields. This program’s focus is to ensure students fulfill the trainingrequirements needed to obtain a DATA waiver to prescribe MAT in office-basedsettings. The desired outcomes include: 1) an increase in the number of individuals completing the trainingrequirements for the DATA waiver, 2) an increase the number of individuals witha DATA waiver, and 3) an ultimate increase in those prescribing.