With this solicitation, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks to establish and operate a Novel Psychoactive Substance Discovery, Education, and Reporting Institute (NPS DiscERn) to rapidly identify and report newly emerging opioids, stimulants, and other drugs which may cause intoxication, impairment, or other adverse effects.
Donor Name: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/30/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The NPS DiscERn should focus on specific efforts to include, but not be limited to:
- Providing an open-access drug early warning system that collaborates with forensic science, public health, and criminal justice agencies to rapidly identify emerging opioids, stimulants, and other drugs known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS).
- Providing analytical methodologies and testing scope recommendations for state, local, federal, or private seized drug and forensic toxicology testing laboratories.
- Exploring alternative or nontraditional sources for NPS information, such as wastewater or syringe washes.
- Curating a common reference of forensically relevant drug substances (prioritizing NPS) that defines a systematic name and incorporates synonyms. This reference may support the standardization of reported results and strengthen data collection across multiple reporting systems.
- Educating forensic practitioners, law enforcement, medical examiners and coroners, legal, public health, and treatment professionals, and the public about emerging drug threats, NPS trends, and testing technologies or methods that support the identification or assessment of NPS.
Goals
The goal of this program is to establish and operate NPS DiscERn to rapidly identify and report newly emerging opioids, stimulants, and other drugs which may cause intoxication, impairment, or other adverse effects.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
Period of Performance
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Federal Agencies
- Units of local government
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