1. Short title This Act may be cited as Women Veterans Transitional Residence Utilizing Support and Treatment Act or the Women Veterans TRUST Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Substance use problems are a significant problem among veterans and can negatively impact a veteran’s health and quality of life. (2) Veterans can turn to alcohol or drugs in an attempt to relieve stress or the symptoms of mental health disorders. (3) Rates of substance use disorder among women veterans range from three to 16 percent of the population. (4) Women veterans face a unique set of challenges associated with their military service that can lead to substance abuse. (5) Women veterans aged 35 and older were found to have higher rates of substance-use disorders than their non-veteran counterparts. (6) Studies indicate women veterans are twice as likely as men veterans to develop posttraumatic stress disorder, twice as likely to have serious psychological distress, and approximately one out of four women veterans reports military sexual trauma. (7) Studies indicate that women veterans with a substance-use disorder diagnosis have higher rates of suicide than their non-veteran peers, and women veterans are more than twice as likely to die by suicide than non-veteran women. (8) Health services that are women-specific can be important to effective care, and women veterans consider the availability of women-specific care as extremely important. (9) While the Secretary of Veterans Affairs provides women veterans with substance use treatment through a number of programs, the Women Veterans’ Therapeutic Transitional Residence Program is a model for providing treatment and rehabilitative services to women veterans with drug and alcohol dependency, and it is critical that the Secretary identifies the need for, and feasibility of, similar programs throughout the health care system of the Department. 3. Women-specific drug and alcohol dependency treatment and rehabilitative programs for women veterans (a) Analysis (1)