Senate Passes Overwhelmingly Bipartisan Opioids Bill

  • 6 years ago
Senate Passes
Overwhelmingly
Bipartisan Opioids Bill The opioid legislation
passed 99-1. The bill addresses
the opioid crisis
in three ways: 1 2 3 It also establishes the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act. The STOP Act requires
the U.S. Postal Service The Postal Service will begin
sharing real-time information
with the Department
of Homeland Security To assist in addiction recovery, The White House praised the bill as a
"whole-of-government" approach to
combating the opioid epidemic in the U.S.

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