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Texas Targeted Opioid Response strategies span the behavioral health continuum of care funding prevention activities, treatment and recovery services, as well as integrated projects. To meet federal grantee requirements, streamline deployment of funds, and maintain quality services, HHSC plans to expand existing contracts and partner with governmental entities such as academic institutions and local mental health authorities that provide outreach, screening, assessment and referral functions.
The TTOR program implemented a continuum of services model to target integrated, prevention, treatment and recovery focus areas as illustrated. Additional information pertaining to TTOR is outlined in the TTOR Primer.
Who Is Eligible for TTOR Grant Program Services?
One in five Texans has experienced an opioid overdose or know someone who has, Kasey Strey, TTOR Director at Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said. We are dedicated to preventing prescription opioid misuse, overdoses and opioid use disorder. With awareness of the risks and how to take medications safely, Texans can prevent opioid misuse and help put an end to the opioid crisis.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every day, 128 people in the United States die after an overdose involving either prescription or illicit opioids like heroin.
Nearly 80% of people nationwide who use heroin report misusing prescription opioids beforehand, the CDC said.