Bill Text: HI SB2043 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Substance Abuse Treatment; Department of Health; Appropriation ($)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - Referred to CPH, WAM. [SB2043 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB2043-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to substance abuse treatment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The alcohol and drug abuse division (division) of the department of health is the primary and often sole source of public funds for substance abuse treatment in the State. Substance abuse treatment funds are comprised of state general funds and federal block grant moneys. In 2014, the division provided funds to twenty-four agencies that offered services to adults at fifty-two sites and ten agencies that provided services to adolescents at one hundred seven sites statewide.
The division's treatment efforts are designed to promote a statewide culturally appropriate and comprehensive system of services to meet the treatment and recovery needs of individuals and families. Treatment services fall along a continuum of cares that includes residential treatment programs, intensive outpatient treatment programs, outpatient treatment programs, therapeutic living programs, residential social detoxification programs, and methadone maintenance outpatient programs.
The division's target population includes adults or adolescents who meet certain criteria for substance abuse or dependence, do not exceed a specific income level, and have no other form of insurance coverage for substance abuse treatment. Priority admissions are given to pregnant and parenting women with children and injection drug users.
According to the Department of Health's Alcohol and Drug Treatment Services: Hawaii, 5-Year Trends (2010-2014) report in 2014, a total of 3,929 clients were served and a total of 5,109 cases were discharged from treatment or transferred to a different program. Among the 3,754 discharged cases, forty-three per cent completed treatment with no drug use, eighteen per cent completed treatment with some drug use, twenty-five per cent left the facility before completing treatment, and the remainder were discharged for other reasons.
A six-month follow up in 2014 indicated that almost all adolescents were attending school and sixty-nine per cent of adults were employed. The majority of adolescents and adults reported not using any substances in the past thirty days prior to the six-month follow-up. The vast majority of adolescents and adults continued to have no arrests, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits since discharge.
The purpose of this Act is to make an appropriation to the department of health's alcohol and drug abuse division to allow the division to continue to provide and support substance abuse treatment in the State.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $50,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016-2017 for the department of health's alcohol and drug abuse division to provide and support substance abuse treatment services in the State.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2016.
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Report Title:
Substance Abuse Treatment; Department of Health; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds to the department of health for substance abuse treatment services.
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