The state opioid response (SOR) grants totaled $1.485 billion, and appear to have gone to the same 58 recipients as in 2024, in the exact same amounts. SAMHSA “strategic priorities”Earlier in September, SAMHSA announced new “strategic priorities” that explicitly renounce housing-first and harm reduction models and target drug users who don’t have housing, as the administration has increasingly done since an executive order in July. “SAMHSA grants will prioritize evidence-based programs and deprioritize programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called ‘harm reduction,’” the agency stated. The strategic priorities also reference a letter to state partners “ending harm reduction,” which the administration published in July days after the executive order. Inset graphic via Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.