The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is accepting grant applications for the FY 2014 “Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)”. The FY 2014 program will provide funding up to $400,000 to help states, county governments, and tribal governments implement and enhance prescription drug monitoring programs to prevent the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs and aid in investigations of pharmaceutical crime.
The BJA grant program is administered with DEA’s Office of Diversion Control, Office of National Drug Control Policy, CDC, FDA, and SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
Under the BJA grant program, 14 awards were made in FY 2013 for states to implement or enhance a PDMP. Since the inception of the program in FY 2002, grants have been awarded to 49 states and one U.S. territory.
In FY 2012, the program expanded to provide funding to federally-recognized tribal governments to enable tribal healthcare providers to have access to data contained within state PDMPs.
In FY 2013, the program expanded even further to a third funding category to provide support to state and localities to pilot innovative ways to use PDMPs and provide data to help in prevention, treatment, and enforcement efforts.
For example, the funding can be used to build data collection and analysis systems, participate in the Prescription Behavior Surveillance System, exchange controlled substance information with other PDMP programs, and work with public health and criminal justice professionals to collect and analyze various sources of data and then develop ways to share the data.
The applications are due for (BJA-2014-3767) on May 6, 2014. The grant information is available at https://www.bja.gov/Funding/14PDMPsol.pdf. The announcement was published on March 11, 2014 on www.grants.gov. For more details, email Chris Traver, Senior Policy Advisor at Christopher.Traver@ojp.usdoj.gov or call 202-307-2963.