December 12, 2018 Office of Behavioral Health receives $23.1 million State Opioid Response grant

- The Louisiana Department of Health is among the recipients of State Opioid Response grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The grant is among the more than $1 billion in opioid-specific grants SAMHSA awarded nationally in September.

The Department’s Office of Behavioral Health received $23.1 million for a two-year period. The grant funds the Office’s Louisiana State Opioid Response Project, or LaSOR, to combat the state’s opioid crisis. More than 400 Louisianans died of opioid overdose in 2017, a 20 percent increase over 2016.

The Office has allocated the funds toward designated partners to achieve the following goals:

The Office of Behavioral Health is working with these partners on an array of projects including:

Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, M.D.

Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein

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