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Sarbanes Spearheads Federal Fight Against Heroin Addiction and Overdose

October 8, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) today took steps at the federal level to address the nation's epidemic of opioid overdose deaths by holding a Health Subcommittee hearing on solutions for opioid addiction and overdose, as well as by introducing the Co-Prescribing to Reduce Overdoses Act, which would give patients at risk of addiction and overdose better access to lifesaving overdose reversal drugs.

Issues:Health Care