White House Takes Action to Address Prescription Opioid, Heroin Epidemic

Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

As Congress moves to conference on legislation related to the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic, the Obama Administration is taking additional actions to expand access to treatment, strengthen prescription drug monitoring, enable safe disposal of unneeded drugs, and accelerate research on pain and opioid misuse and overdose. The President has made clear that addressing this […]

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