1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Corrections Public Health and Community Re-entry Act of 2018 . 2. Medication Assisted Treatment Community Re-entry Program (a) Authorization The Attorney General, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Corrections, is authorized to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, States and units of local government to develop, implement, or expand a program to provide medication-assisted treatment to individuals incarcerated in the jurisdiction who are addicted to opioids. (b) Purposes The purposes of the program under this section are to— (1) develop medication-assisted treatment programs, in consultation with nonprofit organizations qualified to provide technical support for such programs; (2) reduce the risk of overdose to individuals following release from incarceration; and (3) reduce the rate of recidivism. (c) Program requirements A program described in subsection (a) which is funded by a grant or a cooperative agreement under this section shall include the following: (1) A sufficient number of providers who can prescribe (or otherwise dispense) and discuss with patients the risks of, benefits of, and differences between— (A) not less than 1 opioid antagonist medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat addiction involving opioids