Senate Passes Bipartisan Legislation Package To Combat Opioid Epidemic

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dailycaller
8:37 PM 09/17/2018
Evie Fordham | Politics and Health Care Reporter

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http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/17/senate-opioid-bill-passed/

The Senate passed a bipartisan legislation package that would take a multi-pronged approach to combating the opioid epidemic Monday.

The package will need to be reconciled with similar legislation passed by the House of Representatives in June, and legislation sponsor Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said he hopes the president will sign the measure into law in early October, reported NBC.

“This bill represents Congress at its best,” Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch said before the Senate vote Monday. “I look forward to working with my colleagues in the House.”

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https://wtop.com/national/2018/08/ag-jeff-sessions-addresses-us-opioid-epidemic-in-cleveland/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently estimated there were 72,000 fatal drug overdoses in the country last year

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/16/us-drug-overdose-deaths-opioids-fentanyl-cdc

[Applewood]

How much is this War on Drugs Part 2 going to cost us taxpayers?  My taxes are already being used for a state and a local anti-opioid effort.  Why do we need a federal effort that, like its predecessor, will have no real effect? 

About the only effect these anti-opioid schemes will have is make it much more difficult for law-abiding citizens who really need opioids to combat real, devastating, chronic pain to get the medication they need. 

Leave it to Republicans to be just as much tax and spend as the Democrats. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Swell.  Another crackdown on innocent chronic pain sufferers.