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With Rouzer support, House passes measures to combat opioid epidemic

Washington, DC, May 13, 2016
nd Postpartum Women Act of 2016
  • H.R. 1818 – Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2016
  • H.R. 4969 – John Thomas Decker Act of 2016
  • H.R. 4586 – Lali’s Law
  • H.R. 4599 – Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016
  • H.R. 4976 – Opioid Review Modernization Act of 2016
  • H.R. 4982 – Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2016
  • H.R. 4981 – Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Expansion and Modernization Act
  • H.R. 4641 – To provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes
  • H.R. 5046 – Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016

    • The bills were combined into a single legislative package and voted on as a rule to amend the Senate-passed opioid legislation, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act.  The next step will be to vote to go to formal conference committee with the Senate to finalize the package and get it signed into law. 

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