Far-Reaching Opioid Bill Passes House
June 27, 2018 In what the House Energy and Commerce Committee has described as “the most significant congressional effort against a single drug crisis in history,” the House of Representatives has passed, by an overwhelming majority, the bipartisan SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6) to curb the growing opioid crisis. The bill will serve as the vehicle for a variety of House-passed bills related to the opioid epidemic as it moves to the Senate in July. The bill…