Department Of Justice Office Of Justice Programs Awards More Than $340 Million In Grants To Fight Addiction Crisis

The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) awarded fiscal year 2020 grants totaling more than $340 million to help fight the addiction crisis. The funding is through four OJP components: the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

Through BJA, OJP made the following awards:

More than $147 million under BJA’s Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Abuse Site-based Program will help prosecutors develop strategies to address violent crime caused by illegal opioid distribution and . . .