South Carolina gets $6.5 million to help combat opioid addiction and overdoses
COLUMBIA —The fight against prescription pill and heroin addiction in the Palmetto State just got a financial boost from the federal government. The South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services received $6.5 million in federal grants last week to help treat and prevent opioid addiction, which led to roughly 565 confirmed overdose deaths in the state in 2015. The new funding comes from the 21st Century Cures Act, which was passed by a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers last year and is meant to increase funding for medical research. Financial Assistance in Care As part of that package, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama, members of Congress allocated $1 billion in grant funding to help states deal with a prescription pill and heroin epidemic that has impacted large parts of the country and killed tens of thousands of people. Sara Goldsby, the acting director of DAODAS, said the state will spend the $6.5 million on a new advertising campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction and treatment programs.
The new funding comes from the 21st Century Cures Act, which was passed by a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers last year and is meant to increase funding for medical research.
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