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/* 42 USC 285o follows. Section 285o3 sets up a national
office for AIDS policy related to drug abusers. */
National Institute on Drug Abuse
285o. Purpose of Institute
(a) In general.The general purpose of the National Institute
on Drug Abuse (hereafter in this subpart [42 USC 285o et
seq.] referred to as the "Institute") is the conduct and
support of biomedical and behavioral research, health
services research, research training, and health information
dissemination with respect to the prevention of drug abuse
and the treatment of drug abusers.
(b) Research program. The research program established under
this subpart [42 USC 285o et seq.] shall encompass the
social, behavioral, and biomedical etiology, mental and
physical health consequences, and social and economic
consequences of drug abuse. In carrying out the program, the
Director of the Institute shall give special consideration
to projects relating to drug abuse among women (particularly
with respect to pregnant women).
(c) Collaboration. The Director of the Institute shall
collaborate with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration in focusing the services research
activities of the Institute and in disseminating the results
of such research to health professionals and the general
public.
(d) Funding. (1) Authorization of appropriations. For the
purpose of carrying out this subpart [42 USC 285o et seq.],
other than section 464P [42 USC 285o-4], there are
authorized to be appropriated $440,000,000 for fiscal year
1993, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year
1994.
(2) Allocation for health services research. Of the
amounts appropriated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year,
the Director shall obligate not less than 15 percent to
carry out health services research relating to drug abuse.
(July 1, 1944, ch 373, Title IV, Part C, Subpart 15, 464L,
as added July 10, 1992, P. L. 102-321, Title I, Subtitle B,
123(a), 106 Stat. 360; Aug. 26, 1992, P. L. 102-352,
2(a)(3), 106 Stat. 938.)
285o-1. Associate Director for Prevention
(a) In general. There shall be in the Institute an Associate
Director for Prevention who shall be responsible for the
fulltime coordination and promotion of the programs in the
Institute concerning the prevention of drug abuse. The
Associate Director shall be appointed by the Director of the
Institute from individuals who because of their professional
training or expertise are experts in drug abuse and the
prevention of such abuse.
(b) Report. The Associate Director for Prevention shall
prepare for inclusion in the biennial report made under
section 407 [42 USC 284b] a description of the prevention
activities of the Institute, including a description of the
staff and resources allocated to those activities.
(July 1, 1944, ch 373, Title IV, Part C, Subpart 15, 464M,
as added July 10, 1992, P. L. 102-321, Title I, Subtitle B,
123(b),
106 Stat. 361.)
285o-2. Drug Abuse Research Centers
(a) Authority. The Director of the Institute may designate
National Drug Abuse Research Centers for the purpose of
interdisciplinary research relating to drug abuse and other
biomedical, behavioral, and social issues related to drug
abuse. No entity may be designated as a Center unless an
application therefore has been submitted to, and approved
by, the Secretary. Such an application shall be submitted in
such manner and contain such information as the Secretary
may reasonably require. The Secretary may not approve such
an application unless:
(1) the application contains or is supported by
reasonable assurances that:
(A) the applicant has the experience, or
capability, to conduct, through biomedical, behavioral,
social, and related disciplines, long-term research on drug
abuse and to provide coordination of such research among
such disciplines;
(B) the applicant has available to it sufficient
facilities (including laboratory, reference, and data
analysis facilities) to carry out the research plan
contained in the application;
(C) the applicant has facilities and personnel to
provide training in the prevention and treatment of drug
abuse;
(D) the applicant has the capacity to train
predoctoral and postdoctoral students for careers in
research on drug abuse;
(E) the applicant has the capacity to conduct
courses on drug abuse problems and research on drug abuse
for undergraduate and graduate students, and medical and
osteopathic, nursing, social work, and other specialized
graduate students; and
(F) the applicant has the capacity to conduct
programs of continuing education in such medical, legal, and
social service fields as the Secretary may require.
(2) the application contains a detailed five-year plan
for research relating to drug abuse.
(b) Grants. The Director of the Institute shall, under such
conditions as the Secretary may reasonably require, make
annual grants to Centers which have been designated under
this section. No funds provided under a grant under this
subsection may be used for the purchase of any land or the
purchase, construction, preservation, or repair of any
building. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the
term "construction" has the meaning given that term by
section 701(1) [42 USC 292a(1)].
285o-3. Office on AIDS
The Director of the Institute shall establish within the
Institute an Office on AIDS. The Office shall be responsible
for the coordination of research and determining the
direction of the Institute with respect to AIDS research
related to:
(1) primary prevention of the spread of HIV, including
transmission via drug abuse;
(2) drug abuse services research; and
(3) other matters determined appropriate by the Director.
(July 1, 1944, ch 373, Title IV, Part C, Subpart 15, 464O,
as added July 10, 1992, P. L. 102-321, Title I, Subtitle B,
123(b), 106 Stat. 362.)
285o-4. Medication Development Program
(a) Establishment. There is established in the Institute a
Medication Development Program through which the Director of
such Institute shall:
(1) conduct periodic meetings with the Commissioner of
Food and Drugs to discuss measures that may facilitate the
approval process of drug abuse treatments;
(2) encourage and promote (through grants, contracts,
international collaboration, or otherwise) expanded research
programs, investigations, experiments, community trials, and
studies, into the development and use of medications to
treat drug addiction;
(3) establish or provide for the establishment of
research facilities;
(4) report on the activities of other relevant agencies
relating to the development and use of pharmacotherapeutic
treatments for drug addiction;
(5) collect, analyze, and disseminate data useful in the
development and use of pharmacotherapeutic treatments for
drug addiction and collect, catalog, analyze, and
disseminate through international channels, the results of
such research;
(6) directly or through grants, contracts, or cooperative
agreements, support training in the fundamental sciences and
clinical disciplines related to the pharmacotherapeutic
treatment of drug abuse, including the use of training
stipends, fellowships, and awards where appropriate; and
(7) coordinate the activities conducted under this
section with related activities conducted within the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the
National Institute of Mental Health, and other appropriate
institutes and shall consult with the Directors of such
Institutes.
(b) Duties. In carrying out the activities described in
subsection (a), the Director of the Institute:
(1) shall collect and disseminate through publications
and other appropriate means, information pertaining to the
research and other activities under this section;
(2) shall make grants to or enter into contracts and
cooperative agreements with individuals and public and
private entities to further the goals of the program;
(3) may, in accordance with section 496 [42 USC 289e],
and in consultation with the National Advisory Council on
Drug Abuse, acquire, construct, improve, repair, operate,
and maintain pharmacotherapeutic research centers,
laboratories, and other necessary facilities and equipment,
and such other real or
personal property as the Director determines necessary, and
may, in consultation with such Advisory Council, make grants
for the construction or renovation of facilities to carry
out the purposes of this section;
(4) may accept voluntary and uncompensated services;
(5) may accept gifts, or donations of services, money, or
property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible;
and
(6) shall take necessary action to ensure that all
channels for the dissemination and exchange of scientific
knowledge and information are maintained between the
Institute and the other scientific, medical, and biomedical
disciplines and organizations nationally and
internationally.
(c) Report. (1) In general. Not later than December 31,
1992, and each December 31 thereafter, the Director of the
Institute shall submit to the Office of National Drug
Control Policy established under section 1002 of the Anti-
Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (21 U.S.C. 1501) a report, in
accordance with paragraph (3), that describes the objectives
and activities of the program assisted under this section.
(2) National Drug Control Strategy. The Director of
National Drug Control Policy shall incorporate, by reference
or otherwise, each report submitted under this subsection in
the National Drug Control Strategy submitted the following
February 1 under section 1005 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of
1988 (21 U.S.C. 1504).
(d) Definition. For purposes of this section, the term
"pharmacotherapeutics" means medications used to treat the
symptoms and disease of drug abuse, including
medications to: (1) block the effects of abused drugs;
(2) reduce the craving for abused drugs;
(3) moderate or eliminate withdrawal symptoms;
(4) block or reverse the toxic effect of abused drugs;
or (5) prevent relapse in persons who have been
detoxified
from drugs of abuse.
(e) Authorization of appropriations. For the purpose of
carrying out this section, there are authorized to be
appropriated $85,000,000 for fiscal year 1993, and
$95,000,000 for fiscal year 1994.