42 U.S.C. § 300x–28 — Additional agreements

(a) Improvement of process for appropriate referrals for treatment — The State must work to improve how it refers people seeking treatment to the facility that offers the type of treatment best suited to them. (b) Professional development — The State must make sure staff working in its prevention, treatment, and recovery systems have ongoing chances to be trained on: recent trends in substance use disorders in the State; better and evidence-based ways to prevent and treat these disorders; being held accountable based on performance; the requirements for collecting and reporting data; and anything else that would improve how these services are delivered. (c) Coordination of various activities and services — The State must coordinate its prevention and treatment work with other relevant services, including health, social, correctional and criminal justice, educational, vocational rehabilitation, and employment services. (d) Waiver of requirement — (1) In general. If a State asks, the Secretary can waive any or all of this section's requirements, if the Secretary decides the requirement isn't needed to keep the quality of prevention and treatment services up in that State. (2) Date certain for acting upon request. The Secretary must approve or deny the waiver request within 120 days. (3) Applicability of waiver. Any waiver only covers the fiscal year it was granted for.