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{{Infobox U.S. legislation
| shorttitle        = Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act
| othershorttitles  = Jason Simcakoski Memorial and Promise Act
| longtitle         = An Act to authorize the Attorney General and Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to address the prescription opioid and heroin use crises, and for other purposes. 
| colloquialacronym = CARA
| nickname          = Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016
| enacted by        = 114th
| effective date    = July 22, 2016
| public law url    = https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-114publ198/pdf/PLAW-114publ198.pdf
| cite public law   = 114-198
| cite statutes at large = {{usstat|130|695}}
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| title amended   = {{unbulleted list|[[Title 42 of the United States Code|42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare]]|[[Title 21 of the United States Code|21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs]]}}
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| sections amended = {{unbulleted list|42 U.S.C. §§ 10513, 10803, 1320a-7k, 1320a-7m, 1320d-2, 1395b-3, 1395ddd, 1395iii, 1395w-10, 1395w-101, 1395w-104, 1395w-152, 1395x, 1396, 1396a, 1396r, 1396w, 1397bb, 243, 280g-3, 290bb, 290bb-1, 290dd, 3711, 3793, 3797aa, 3797s, 5101, 5104, 5106a|21 U.S.C. §§ 1521, 1903, 301, 321, 355, 355-1, 802, 812, 823, 829}}
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| introducedin    = Senate
| introducedbill  = {{USBill|114|S.|524}}
| introducedby    = [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]]–[[Rhode Island|RI]])
| introduceddate  = February 12, 2015
| committees      = [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary]]
| passedbody1     = Senate
| passeddate1     = March 10, 2016
| passedvote1     = 94-1 {{US Senate Vote|114|2|34}}
| passedbody2     = House
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| passeddate2     = May 13, 2016
| passedvote2     = 400-5 {{US House Vote|2016|193}}
| conferencedate  = July 6, 2016
| passedbody3     = House
| passeddate3     = July 8, 2016
| passedvote3     = 407-5 {{US House Vote|2016|399}}
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| passedbody4     = Senate
| passeddate4     = July 13, 2016
| passedvote4     = 92-2 {{US Senate Vote|114|2|129}}
| signedpresident = [[Barack Obama]]
| signeddate      = July 22, 2016
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The '''Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act''' (CARA) was signed into law by [[President Obama]] on July 22, 2016. The bill was introduced by Senator [[Sheldon Whitehouse]] and Representative [[Jim Sensenbrenner]] as the first major federal addiction act in 40 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=S. 524: Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016|accessdate=November 30, 2016|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/s524/summary}}</ref><ref name=CADCA>{{cite web|website=Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America|accessdate=November 30, 2016|url=http://www.cadca.org/comprehensive-addiction-and-recovery-act-cara|title=Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act|year=2016}}</ref>

<abbr title="The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act">CARA</abbr> authorizes over $181 million to respond to the [[Opioid crisis|epidemic of opioid use disorder]] and is intended to greatly increase both prevention programs and the availability of treatment programs. While this bill authorized prevention and treatment programs, funding for its provisions had to come through Congress's appropriations process.<ref name=CADCA />

In May 2017, the [[Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration]] (SAMHSA) announced grants totaling $2.6 million for recovery community organizations to build [[addiction recovery]] networks and engage in public education as authorized under CARA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/ti-17-015|title=Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act: Building Communities of Recovery|website=Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration}}</ref>

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