Key Factors Relating to DAA
Key Factors Relating to DAA
Treatment of individuals with DAA can eliminate dependencies, restore families, and help build competencies that will lead to self-sufficiency. In addition to eliminating client abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs, treatment also reduces clients’ utilization of expensive health care and involvement with the criminal justice system. It also improves the level of productive employment, which will lead to a reduction of welfare dependence. Addiction treatment directly focuses on personal and family stability, job preparation and readiness, job placement and ongoing economic self-sufficiency (Architzel et al., 2001).
Substance Abuse Prevention And Treatment Block Grant Program (SAPT) is one of the primary tools the Federal Government uses to support and expand alcohol and other drug prevention and treatment programs throughout the United States. SAPT aims to expand and enhance the availability and delivery of quality addiction prevention and treatment services nationally. Grants place special emphasis on providing services to pregnant women addicted to alcohol and drugs, substance-using women with dependent children, and injecting drug users. States have the flexibility to design solutions to address specific local addiction problems. These funds are administered directly to the States and are allocated according to a formula legislated by Congress. States then distribute these funds to cities and counties within their jurisdictions based on need. Federal law requires States to allocate funds as follows: 20% for primary prevention services, 35% for alcohol treatment services, 35% for drug treatment services, 5% maintenance of a baseline of expenditures for services to pregnant women and women with dependent children, and 5% for administration of services (Delaney et al, 2000).
Primary populations targeted by this bill are alcohol
and drug abusers and their families. This law addressed those whose disability
was determined solely on their substance abuse and specifically those whose
monies would be terminated. Discussion of this issue was included in the
earlier section on historical problems.
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