1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Violence Against Women Health Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) millions of Americans continue to experience domestic or sexual violence each year with more than three women murdered by their partners each day; (2) this type of violence and abuse results in short-term and chronic physical and behavioral health consequences that have a significant economic burden to victims and communities; (3) new CDC data found the lifetime per-victim cost of intimate partner violence was $103,767 for women victims with 59 percent going to medical costs. Public funding paid 37 percent of this total cost; (4) victims are also at a higher risk for developing addictions to tobacco, alcohol, or drugs; for example, 31 percent to 67 percent of women in substance use disorder treatment programs report experiencing domestic violence within the past year; (5) over 50 percent of survivors of domestic violence have experienced depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and substance use and 23 percent have experienced suicidality; (6) a study conducted by the National Domestic Violence Hotline, in conjunction with the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health practice mental health and substance use coercion where abusers intentionally undermine their partners’ sanity or sobriety, control their access to medication, and sabotage their treatment and recovery efforts among other coercion tactics; (7) researchers have also found that exposure to multiple childhood traumas such as sexual abuse and domestic violence can cause long-term negative physical and emotional health outcomes such as heart disease, cancer and depression; (8) health care providers can identify survivors of violence and interventions can decrease risk for violence and improve health outcomes, but health providers need training and systems level support in order to do so