- (a) The department shall carry out the development and implementation of a comprehensive program dealing with the prevention and treatment of, and research on, problems of alcoholism and drug abuse as they affect the state.
- (b) The comprehensive program carried out under this section must include a strategy for expanding substance abuse treatment services and reducing waiting lists for eligible participants in a substance abuse prevention or treatment program and must include one or more of the factors listed under AS 47.37.045(f).