20250SCR_001597CHP INTRODUCED 2025-01-17 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-02-24 PASSED_SENATE 2025-01-30 ENROLLED 2025-02-26 CHAPTERED 2025-03-04 FILED 2025-03-04 2025 SCR CHP CHR 0 Introduced by Senator Umberg LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Umberg Relative to Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month. Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month. This measure would proclaim January as “Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month.” NO

WHEREAS, Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States; and

WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines “drug overdose” as a trauma to the body that happens when a drug is taken in excessive amounts; and

WHEREAS, Addiction to opioids is driving the majority of accidental deaths in the United States; and

WHEREAS, In 2023, 105,007 deaths due to drug overdose occurred in the United States; and

WHEREAS, 7,000 Californians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2022; and

WHEREAS, The opioid crisis has devastated communities in California, which has prompted an urgent discussion about the risks of addiction associated with overreliance on prescription medication for pain management; and

WHEREAS, There is need to ensure patient access to safe and effective pain management treatment and the need to support physicians providing this treatment; and

WHEREAS, Awareness of, and access to, nonopioid pharmacological treatment for pain management is vitally important to California’s efforts to combat the opioid crisis and should be considered by physicians to address a patient’s pain; and

WHEREAS, The proliferation of sober living homes and substance use disorder treatment facilities, particularly in Southern California’s “Rehab Riviera,” has raised concerns about the quality of care and regulatory oversight of such facilities; and

now, therefore,

be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Senate declares January as Substance Use Disorder Month; and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.