Recortes de financiación federal de DPA + LAC: métodos
Los datos en este proyecto were gathered from a variety of sources, including news reporting, information made public by the federal government, and unofficial reporting led by current and former members of the government. The research team focused on finding concrete information related to staffing, departmental, and budgetary cuts to four federal agencies focused on substance use disorder treatment. This included both realized cuts and proposed cuts demonstrated by the Trump administration’s 2027 budget proposal.
A continuación se muestra una lista de recursos que fueron útiles para recopilar estos datos.
- Departamentos y Presupuesto
- El Sistema de Seguimiento de la Rendición de Cuentas en las Subvenciones Gubernamentales fue un recurso útil para recopilar datos sobre los gastos de las subvenciones.
- To demonstrate how much funding the administration proposes cutting, our team examined specific line items or programs in the 2027 budget documents and compared these to previous years’ funding levels.
A continuación se presentan explicaciones sobre algunos números específicos reportados en este rastreador.
- Total federal cuts that have been made to treatment, overdose prevention, and other health services as of January 30th, 2026: $333 million
- This overall number was calculated by adding up all terminated grants related to drugs, drug use, addiction, and overdose from this database of terminated SAMHSA grants ($245 million, fuente)
- We then added this number to the known DOJ cuts to mental health and substance use disorders ($88 million, fuente).
- Total anticipated funding cuts to CDC, SAMHSA, NIH, and DOJ in 2027: $10 billion
- This overall number was calculated by adding up the proposed funding reductions to each of these agencies, as demonstrated by the 2027 budget and comparisons to 2026 levels.
- $2.9 billion from CDC (fuente)
- $752.9 million from SAMHSA (fuente)
- $5 billion from NIH (fuente)
- $1.4 billion from DOJ (fuente)
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: $173 million cut in funding in 2027, moved out of CDC
- The 2027 CDC budget eliminates the Injury Prevention Center, while the HHS budget calls for $588 million En la financiación de este centro. El Centro se trasladaría de los CDC a la recién formada Administración para una América Saludable.
- The funding would cut over $173 million from current funding levels, which was calculated by subtracting $588 million from approximately $761 million, which was the Center’s FY 2026 budget.
- Reductions to SAMHSA block grants in 2026: $100 million less
- La administración propone consolidar tres subvenciones en bloque en una “Subvención en bloque para la innovación en salud conductual”, que se financiaría a un total of $4.62 billion.
- The $100 million decrease was calculated by subtracting the 2026 appropriated amounts para cada una de las tres subvenciones individuales.
- $4.62 billion (anteriormente Subvención en bloque para servicios de prevención, tratamiento y apoyo a la recuperación del consumo de sustancias + Subvención en bloque para servicios de salud mental comunitarios + Subvención en bloque para la respuesta estatal a los opioides) – $4.52 billion (Subvención en bloque para la innovación en salud conductual) = $0.100 billion
- Total federal cuts that have been made to drug research funded by NIH: $41.3 million
- Esta cifra total se calculó sumando todas las subvenciones canceladas relacionadas con el consumo de drogas, trastornos por consumo de sustancias y sobredosis. esta base de datos of terminated NIH research grants in 2025.
- To come to this estimate, we identified $1.107 billion in cancelled drug-related grants (we identified grants with NIH spending categories such as ‘drug abuse,’ ‘substance misuse,’ ‘substance use prevention,’ ‘methamphetamine,’ and a dozen other related categories). The majority of these grants had been approved for funding years ago, with an estimated $538 million in funds that had already been disbursed by the time that funding was cancelled. This means most grants were terminated before they were able to complete their studies, analyze their findings, and disseminate the results. However, this list also includes grants that had been recently approved but never received funding.
- After widespread public outcry and pressure from Congress, we identified 118 addiction research grants that had been reinstated, representing a total of $535.5 million.
- We also identified 70 still canceled NIH grants, which represents a total of $41.3 million.
- Consolidating two NIH institutes into one and cutting them by $165 million
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) would be combined into the National Institute of Substance Use and Addiction Research, which would be funded at $2.097 billion in 2027 (HHS FY27 Budget-in-Brief p. 24).
- The $165 million was calculated by looking at the difference between the National Institute of Substance Use and Addiction Research’s total funding and 2026 actual funding levels for the two composite institutes (Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2026, p. 189).
- 2026 budget of NIDA: $1.662 billion
- 2026 budget of NIAAA: $595 million
- 2026 Total budgets for these institutes: $2.262 billion
