Programs and Initiatives
Naloxone Safety Net Program
The Indian Health Service supports expanding harm reduction activities and work to promote low-barrier access to naloxone, a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose. As part of a collaborative pilot project between the IHS National Committee on Heroin Opioids and Pain Efforts (HOPE) and the Division of Behavioral Health, a limited amount of naloxone is available for federal, tribal, and urban sites struggling to meet the demand. These doses can augment existing naloxone programs that experience unexpected shortfalls. For more information, including the application process, please email the IHS HOPE Committee.
IHS Opioid Use Disorder and Pain
Created for clinical personnel and patients, the Indian Health Service’s Opioid Use Disorder and Pain website includes information, best practices, policies, and procedures about managing chronic pain, including prescribing opioids while preventing their illegal or harmful use.
Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention (SASP) Program
The Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention (SASP) program serves to expand community-level access to effective, urban AI/AN methamphetamine and/or suicide prevention and treatment programs and enhance evidence- or practice-based methamphetamine and/or suicide prevention or treatment programs and/or community mobilization programs.
Youth Regional Treatment Centers (YRTC)
The mission of the Youth Regional Treatment Centers is to provide quality, holistic behavioral health care for AI/AN adolescents and their families in a substance-free, residential environment that integrates healing, spiritual values and cultural identification.
Preventing Alcohol-Related Deaths (PARD) through Social Detoxification
Preventing Alcohol-Related Deaths (PARD) through Social Detoxification is an IHS cooperative agreement with the City of Gallup located within the Navajo Area. The goal is to increase access to community-based prevention strategies that provide social detoxification, evaluation, stabilization, fostering patient readiness for and entry into treatment for alcohol use, and other substance use disorders.
In 2023, IHS awarded $2,000,000 in funding to the City of Gallup. The project period is for five years from September 30, 2023, to September 29, 2028.
Read the 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity announcement posted in the Federal Register .
