Combating the Opioid Crisis

WASHINGTON, DC – Republican Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are pressing the Administration for an update on the implementation of a key provision of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6), the historic, committee-led bill signed into law in October 2018 to combat the nationwide opioid crisis.

In a letter to the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Admiral Brett P. Giroir, M.D., the leaders stress the need for a public information dashboard linking to HHS programs and publicly available data...

Excerpt: "This dashboard was intended to be an easily accessible electronic hub for the public, providing links to information on programs within HHS related to the reduction of opioid and other substance use disorders, along with access to the publicly available data from HHS agencies and other relevant entities such as medical experts, nonprofit organizations, law enforcement, and research institutions. The dashboard also was supposed to provide data on substance use disorder prevention and treatment strategies in different regions of and populations in the United States, identify information on...