Sweeping bill to fight opioid addiction will be considered by Senate health committee
The Senate health care committee will soon consider a sweeping bill that, if passed, would be Capitol Hill’s first major action this year on the opioid addiction crisis.
The Senate health care committee will consider a sweeping bill next week meant to combat the opioid epidemic, according to four lobbyists and a congressional aide familiar with the legislation.
The proposal would reauthorize a number of programs first created by the SUPPORT Act, an addiction-focused bill that Congress first passed in 2018. Many of those programs’ authorizations expired earlier this year, however, leading addiction treatment advocates to fret that lawmakers — and specifically the committee’s chairman, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — no longer view the issue as a priority.
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