Tag: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Events held to raise awareness of substance use, celebrate recovery
PROVIDENCE – A number of events focused on increasing awareness and understanding of mental health and substance-use disorders are planned across the state this...
R.I. to receive $17M in federal funds for opioid crisis
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive $17.1 million in federal funds to combat the opioid crisis, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
RIDOC medication-assisted treatment program discussed in new video
PROVIDENCE – Officials from the R.I. Department of Corrections can be seen in a new video outlining the department’s expansion of its medication-assisted treatment...
R.I. receives $6.5M in federal grants to fight opioid addiction
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island received $6.5 million in State Targeted Response Opioid Crisis grant funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,...
CCAP awarded $625K SAMHSA grant for substance abuse prevention
CRANSTON – CCAP’s Cranston Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force will continue operations for another five years thanks to a $625,000 grant from the U.S....
CODAC aids $1.5M expansion, evaluation of RIDOC MAT program
CRANSTON – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has awarded Brown University researchers a three-year, $1.5 million grant to expand and evaluate...
Five Questions With: Susan A. Orban
South County Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds – one of Rhode Island’s 10 Health Equity Zones – is using $2 million from the Substance Abuse...
R.I. receives $15M in federal funds to combat opioids
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is receiving $15 million to combat the opioid crisis from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the department...
BCBSRI: Addiction recovery better at home
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is working to change common opinion that recovery must happen at far-away locales, sharing...
R.I. receives $10M increase in opioid-mitigation funding
PROVIDENCE – Sens. Jack F. Reed, D-R.I., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., led an effort to successfully change the grant formula for state opioid-mitigation funding...
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