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Trump signs major opioids legislation just in time for elections (Washington Examiner)

President Trump has signed a wide-ranging bill into law aimed at reducing addiction and deaths from opioids, an issue his administration has called a public health emergency.

The 650-page-plus bill signed Wednesday is meant to tackle the crisis, giving healthcare workers more latitude to respond, and allocates roughly $8.5 billion in funding authorized in appropriations bills passed earlier this year.

The legislation allows more hospitals to receive government funding for taking in more patients, allows more medical providers to prescribe addiction treatments, helps the Postal Service intercept the potent opioid fentanyl, and encourages the development of a nonaddictive treatment to pain. Lawmakers stressed when they passed the bill that they saw it as only the beginning of their efforts. [Read More]

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