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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on states' efforts to combat the opioid epidemic. Public health officials from Massachusetts, North …

House Republicans held a news conference to discuss several bills addressing opioid abuse in the country that lawmakers would vote on during the upcoming legislative week. Several Republican…

Current and former executives from drug distribution companies testified at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on their role in the opioid crisis and how to stem the flow of pr…

Acting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Head Robert Patterson testified at a hearing on the DEA’s role in combating the opioid epidemic. Subcommittee members pressed Mr. Patterson on wa…

Recovering addicts as well as several health care providers who treat patients addicted to opioids testified at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on the opioid epide…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health convened a hearing to examine the nation’s opioid epidemic and ways to combat it. The two-day hearing began with witnesses from the feder…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held the first in a series of hearings on the ongoing opioid epidemic. In the first panel Drug Enforcement Administration Attorney Susan …

President Trump signed into law the Interdict Act, a bill intended to stem the flow of the synthetic opioid fentanyl into the U.S. Also speaking was a bipartisan group of lawmakers from both…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health met to hear testimony from many House members on their recommendations for combating the opioid epidemic. Some of the topics included tre…

State officials from Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Rhode Island testified about the nation’s opioid epidemic. The witnesses described specific treatment and prevention programs in their …

Federal officials and medical professionals testified on the opioid epidemic and the federal response to the drug Fentanyl. The hearing focused on the connection between opioid drug prescrip…

The House debated a bill to combat opioid addiction. The legislation would set up grant programs for addiction prevention and recovery, treatment for pregnant women and babies born addicted …

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and leadership colleagues spoke with reporters about the opioid bills being considered by the House. Regarding House Republican leadership’s meeting with presu…

Physicians and addiction experts testified before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the growing number of drug abuse cases in the U.S., how states were responding to the epidemic, …

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on the efforts of federal agencies and courts to combat prescription drug abuse, in particular pain …