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 PUBLIC LAW 106-310—OCT. 17, 2000 114 STAT. 1235 of which $3,000,000 shall be available for activities under paragraphs (5) through (8) of subsection (a) and for employing personnel in positions established under subsection (b)(2). PART III—ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT SEC. 3631. EXPANSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE RESEARCH. Section 464N of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285o- 2) is amended by adding at the end the following: "(c) METHAMPHETAMINE RESEARCH.— "(1) GRANTS OR COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS. —The Director of the Institute may make grants or enter into cooperative agreements to expand the current and on-going interdisciplinary research and clinical trials with treatment centers of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network relating to methamphetamine abuse and addiction and other biomedical, behavioral, and social issues related to methamphetamine abuse and addiction. "(2) USE OF FUNDS.— Amounts made available under a grant or cooperative agreement under paragraph (1) for methamphetamine abuse and addiction may be used for research and clinical trials relating to— "(A) the effects of methamphetamine abuse on the human body, including the brain; "(B) the addictive nature of methamphetamine and how such effects differ with respect to different individuals; "(C) the connection between methamphetamine abuse and mental health; "(D) the identification and evaluation of the most effective methods of prevention of methamphetamine abuse and addiction; "(E) the identification and development of the most effective methods of treatment of methamphetamine addiction, including pharmacological treatments; "(F) risk factors for methamphetamine abuse; "(G) effects of methamphetamine abuse and addiction on pregnant women and their fetuses; and "(H) cultural, social, behavioral, neurological and psychological reasons that individuals abuse methamphetamine, or refrain from abusing methamphetamine. "(3) RESEARCH RESULTS. — The Director shall promptly disseminate research results under this subsection to Federal, State and local entities involved in combating methamphetamine abuse and addiction. "(4) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. — " (A) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out paragraph (1), such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year. "(B) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in subparagraph (A) for a fiscal year shall supplement and not supplant any other amounts appropriated in such fiscal year for research on methamphetamine abuse and addiction.". 79-194O~00-12:QL3Part2

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