Establishes a grant program for counties to provide medication-assisted treatment to eligible offenders.
The bill establishes the Medication-assisted Substance Abuse Treatment Grant Program in the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. It aims to increase opportunities for counties to provide medication-assisted treatment combined with comprehensive substance use treatment to eligible offenders while incarcerated and upon release from county correctional institutions. Counties must meet certain requirements to be eligible for grants, including having a substance abuse treatment program and being able to contract with a provider.
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