Opioid Response Enhancement Act This bill amends the 21st Century Cures Act to reauthorize through FY2023 a program of grants to states and tribal entities to carry out activities addressing the opioid epidemic. It allows states and tribal entities to use the grants to carry out public health-related activities addressing other substance abuse that is a substantial or similar public health threat to the opioid epidemic.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Health
AppropriationsDrug, alcohol, tobacco useDrug trafficking and controlled substancesHealth programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive careIndian social and development programsMinority healthPrescription drugs
A bill to reauthorize and improve the 21st Century Cures opioid grant program.
USA115th CongressS-2437| Senate
| Updated: 2/15/2018
Opioid Response Enhancement Act This bill amends the 21st Century Cures Act to reauthorize through FY2023 a program of grants to states and tribal entities to carry out activities addressing the opioid epidemic. It allows states and tribal entities to use the grants to carry out public health-related activities addressing other substance abuse that is a substantial or similar public health threat to the opioid epidemic.
AppropriationsDrug, alcohol, tobacco useDrug trafficking and controlled substancesHealth programs administration and fundingHealth promotion and preventive careIndian social and development programsMinority healthPrescription drugs