Opioid Crisis State Targeted Response Grant (Opioid STR)

The NM Opioid State Targeted Response Grant (STR) initiative is overseen by the New Mexico’s Human Services Department’s Behavioral Health Services Division (HSD/BHSD). The goals of the grant are to 1) increase the number of people who receive treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), 2) increase the number of people who receive OUD recovery services, 3) increase the number of providers implementing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), 4) increase the number of trained OUD prevention and treatment providers, and 5) decrease the rate of opioid misuse, opioid overdoses, and opioid-related deaths. The STR grant funds, in part, the training and distribution of Narcan (naloxone) to first responders across the state to use to reverse opioid overdoses as well as training of health care providers to provide MAT to people with OUD.