President’s Budget Sustains Critical Programs

National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting (NASPER). The budget includes $2 million, the same level as FY 2009, to support the establishment and improvement of state-administered, controlled substance monitoring programs, as authorized by the NASPER Act of 2005.

These programs will ensure that health care providers have access to accurate, timely, prescription information that they can use as a tool for early identification of patients at risk of addiction.

HIV/AIDS Among Minority Populations. The Budget includes $117 million to foster behavioral health among African Americans, Latinos, and other ethnic and racial minority populations experiencing disproportionate increases in HIV/AIDS.

Science and Service Activities. Science and Service programs promote the identification and increase the availability of practices that are thought to have broad potential for service improvement.

SAMHSA’s Congressional Justification requests funding for Science and Service programs for CMHS ($27.7 million), CSAP ($26.6 million), and CSAT ($26.9 million).

Funding supports various activities, including those related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices, HIV/AIDS education, the SAMHSA Health Information Network, and Addiction Technology Transfer Centers.

See SAMHSA’s Congressional Justification.

Find out more detailed information about the President’s FY 2010 Budget.