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eNewsletter - March 28, 2007
Take Action! Critical FY 2008 Budget Deliberations Underway
The US House and Senate have started to work on the spending bills for fiscal year 2008, which begins on October 1, 2007. Ask your US Senators and Representative to increase funding for critical alcohol and other drug research, prevention, treatment and recovery programs, including the Recovery Community Services program and Recovery Month.
The committees that work on these bills are called the Appropriations committees and the bill that they are working on is called Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill. National organizations have come together to present a unified request for funding of key programs. The chart below describes the names of those programs, what the president has requested and what the requested level of funding is. It is important that your Members of Congress hear from you about the importance of funding all of the programs below at the highest possible level. Click here to send an email to your Senators and Representative asking them to invest in programs that support long-term recovery from addiction.
More information about the FY 2008 Budget
The President’s request of $352.1 million for CSAT in FY 2008 is a decrease of $46.8 million from FY 2007. It includes a $3.9 million cut in the Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) and the virtual elimination of funding for the National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.
FY 2006 Actual: $8,842*
FY 2007 Actual: $9,116
FY 2008 Pres. Proposed: $5,263
Decrease: $ -3,853
* in millions
Click here for a handout on the RCSP program and a list of the former and current grantees.
Together, the Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment are slated to lose over $80 million under the President’s proposed budget.
Please email your US Senators and Representative today and ask them to support funding for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment at $410 million and to fully support the Recovery Community Services Program.