From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - August 12, 2011: On August 5, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a new federal framework to coordinate substance abuse prevention and treatment among American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.  Called for under the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, which President Obama signed in July 2010, the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) describes how an inter-departmental coordinating council will guide the new federal effort while the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s (SAMHSA) Office of Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse will coordinate tribal substance abuse programs at the federal level. 

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