The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has made $10 million in substance misuse grant funding available through the HRSA Rural Communities Opioid Response Program.
The grant money is designed to help rural communities hit hard by the ongoing prescription drug misuse crisis—especially those decimated by fentanyl and fentanyl-laced drug overdoses—improve access to medications for opioid use disorder (OUD). More than