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HRD-81-131 1 (1981-07-31)

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                     UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


UNI RESOURCES                                     July 31, 1981
   :DIVISION
     B-164031



     The Honorable Gordon J. Humphrey
     Chairman, Subcommittee on Alcohol
       and Drug Abuse                                  116054
     Committee on Labor and Human Resources
     United States Senate

     Dear Mr. Chairman:

          Subject: TheLKational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
                    Alcoholism Should Make Greater Efforts to
                    Support Treatment Demonstration Projects7
                    (HRD-81- 131)                          19

          We have reviewed selected activities of the Department of
     Health and Human Services' (HHS') National Institute on Alcohol
     Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) pertaining to the treatment and
     rehabilitation of alcohol abusers and alcoholics. Our review
     was undertaken to assess the management and effectiveness of
     NIAAA's directly funded treatment grant program. We are sending
     this report to you because our observations pertaining to HHS'
     involvement in treatment demonstration projects are relevant to
     S.755, which you introduced on March 23, 1981, to reauthorize
     NIAAA and refocus its activities on technical assistance, re-
     search, and demonstration efforts.

          Generally, HHS' programs aimed at treating alcohol abuse and
     alcoholism have evolved since the late 1960s from an effort pri-
     marily aimed at training alcoholism workers and demonstrating how
     effective services can be delivered into one primarily aimed at
     supporting direct treatment services. NIAAA has initiated limited
     efforts to fund projects specifically designed to demonstrate
     and evaluate alcohol abuse and alcoholism treatment techniques.
     NIAAA also classifies about 26 percent of its treatment projects
     as demonstration grants. However, the manner in which our sample
     of six of these treatment grant applications were reviewed and
     evaluated, as well as the manner in which the projects were
     carried out, suggests that their primary emphasis was providing
     direct treatment services.


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