Market Intelligence Reports | July 18, 2016
What Is CARA & What Are The Strategic Implications? An OPEN MINDS Market Intelligence Report
On July 14, 2016 the U.S. Senate passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA) and the Act was sent to the President’s desk to be signed into the law. CARA is being hailed as the most comprehensive reform of addiction in decades and the first to treatment addiction as a disease rather than a crime. The law makes provisions for:
- Grants to state, local and non-profit organizations
- Research related to addiction
- Education campaigns
- Department of Veterans Affairs reforms
- Nurse practitioners and physician assistants to . . .