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Date: September 29, 2006
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SAMHSA Awards $10.1 Million in Grants to Prevent Methamphetamine Abuse

 

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced the award of 10 grants, totaling over $10.1 million over three years, to help local communities expand evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs and systems to stop abuse of methamphetamine.

SAMHSA data have found that admissions to treatment for methamphetamine abuse have increased nationally, moving across the country from West to East.  States in the Midwest and South that had few admissions due to methamphetamine/amphetamine abuse in 1993 are now experiencing high rates of admissions. Methamphetamine/amphetamine admissions have increased nationally in the decade from 1993-2003, from 13 to 56 admissions per 100,000 population ages 12 and older.

"Methamphetamine is a uniquely destructive drug, both for those using it and for those living near its production sites, said Assistant Surgeon General Eric Broderick, D.D.S., M.P.H., Acting Deputy Administrator of SAMHSA.  “While the rates of methamphetamine use and numbers of new users have declined recently, experience reminds us that complacency is not an option.  Prevention remains our first line of defense. These grants can help local communities continue to drive down the use of methamphetamine and prevent it from ever being used in the first place.” 

Grant recipients are using these awards in a number of ways, such as implementing evidence-based community prevention programs that target populations at greatest risk for methamphetamine abuse; training and education of professionals, educators, law enforcement personnel, families and others about the signs of methamphetamine abuse and prevention options; and testing and evaluating pilot programs focused on drug-endangered children. 

The 10 awards are for up to $350,000 in the first year and are renewable for up to three years in all. Total funding for 2006 is just over $3.4 million.  Continuation of these awards is subject to both availability of funds and progress achieved by awardees.

Grants were made to:

Colorado

State Judicial Branch/State Court Administration, Denver -- $348,354 in first-year funding to engage justice-involved youth of methamphetamine-abusing parents and their families in a comprehensive substance abuse prevention program designed to prevent methamphetamine abuse and addiction. The program will help build a coordinated community methamphetamine prevention strategy in Denver.

 

Illinois

Cra-Wal-La Volunteers in Probation, Inc., Lawrenceville -- $326,063 in first-year funding to develop a methamphetamine prevention program targeting youth in rural Southeastern Illinois who are at risk for methamphetamine abuse or living in areas of high methamphetamine production or trafficking.

Massachusettts

Fenway Community Health Center, Boston -- $349,941 in the first year to implement the New Champions Project in Boston, an evidence-based methamphetamine prevention intervention focused on adult men who have sex with other men.  

Oklahoma

Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah -- $350,000 in first-year funding to forge a comprehensive, community-base, integrated system to prevent methamphetamine abuse for American Indian children and adolescents.  The preventive intervention will be culturally appropriate, use known-effective program elements, and engage the active participation of community members in development and implementation.

Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Oklahoma City -- $350,000 in the first year to enable the state to help communities expand existing, known-effective substance abuse prevention interventions, emphasizing methamphetamine abuse.  The program will increase both state and local capacity through infrastructure development.

Oregon

Native American Rehabilitation Association of NW, Inc., Portland -- $350,000 in the first year to implement Raising Our Seventh Generation, a pilot program to identify innovative methodologies to prevent, reduce or delay methamphetamine abuse among young Native American children whose parents are in treatment for methamphetamine abuse, including culturally relevant program components to develop or strengthen known protective factors for young children at risk of drug use.

Tennessee

Centerstone Community Mental Health Centers, Inc., Nashville -- $350,000 in the first year to provide a culturally sensitive, community-based prevention program of outreach and education to adults and youth at risk for methamphetamine abuse in a rural Appalachian area in which methamphetamine production, trafficking and abuse has been outpacing law enforcement capacity and endangering the health of area inhabitants.

Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital and Center, Inc., Oak Ridge -- $319,977 in first-year funding for the Meth P.I. Program to implement alternative school-based prevention programs focused on adolescents at high risk for methamphetamine use, employing Project SUCCESS, a school-based model from SAMHSA’s  National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, modified for particular emphasis on prevention of methamphetamine use.

Texas

San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc., San Antonio – $348,000 in the first year to support methamphetamine use prevention through a school-based program for youth and their families built on the evidence-based Project Success, a model project in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices.  In addition, both juveniles and adults in drug courts, and their families, will be served by accessing recovery support service vouchers from the Texas Access to Recovery program. 

Washington

University of Washington, Seattle -- $308,655 in first year funding to pilot test and evaluate an innovative intervention for prenatal methamphetamine exposure, using an evidence-based parent-child model, that works with both the mother who has either used or been exposed to methamphetamine and her infant who has been exposed prenatally to the drug.
 
 
   
 

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