• Monitor and support funding opportunities for addiction treatment centers based on the Recovery Kentucky model, including ARC POWER grants and HRSA Rural Centers of Excellence on Substance Use Disorders.

Duration: August 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019

General Issues: Health Issues, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $50,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2018: House of Representatives, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), U.S. Senate, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Appalachian Regional Commission