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[CITE: 42USC3441]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
               CHAPTER 42--NARCOTIC ADDICT REHABILITATION
 
SUBCHAPTER III--REHABILITATION AND POSTHOSPITALIZATION CARE PROGRAMS AND 
                   ASSISTANCE TO STATES AND LOCALITIES
 
Sec. 3441. Outpatient services; establishment

    The Surgeon General is authorized to establish, as an integral part 
of the program of treatment for narcotic addiction authorized by section 
257 of this title, outpatient services to (1) provide guidance and give 
psychological help and supervision to patients and other individuals 
released from hospitals of the Service after treatment for narcotic drug 
addiction, utilizing all available resources of local, public and 
private agencies, and (2) assist States and municipalities in developing 
treatment programs and facilities for individuals so addicted, including 
posthospitalization treatment programs and facilities for the care and 
supervision of narcotic addicts released after confinement under this or 
any other Act providing for treatment of drug addiction. The Surgeon 
General shall take into consideration in supplying such services the 
extent of drug addiction in the various States and political 
subdivisions thereof and the willingness of such States and subdivisions 
to cooperate in developing a sound program for the care, treatment, and 
rehabilitation of narcotic addicts.

(Pub. L. 89-793, title IV, Sec. 401, Nov. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 1448.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in cl. (2), means Pub. L. 89-793, Nov. 8, 
1966, 80 Stat. 1438, as amended, which enacted this chapter, sections 
4251 to 4255 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, sections 2901 
to 2906 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, amended section 
257 of this title and section 7237 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, 
and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 3401 of this title 
and section 4202 of Title 18. For complete classification of this Act to 
the Code, see Tables.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health 
Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, 
and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred 
to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note 
under section 202 of this title. Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.
