Hanna pushes bill aimed at curbing heroin addiction
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Richard Hanna (R-22nd District) is backing proposed federal legislation aimed at combating opioid abuse, addiction and deaths across the country.
According to Hanna, Upstate New York has seen a spike in opioid addiction, namely heroin and prescription pain pills. It’s a trend that’s occurring in communities across the nation, he said, and deserves the attention of elected officials to help curtail the dangers.
“No community is immune to this crisis,” Hanna said, adding that Republicans and Democrats in the House are working together to curb opioid abuse. “Heroin and pain pill addiction does not discriminate on age, race, gender or socioeconomic status. Your neighbor could be using heroin, or so could their high-honors high school students. The problem is very real, it is here, and it is a full-blown health crisis.”
Among 18 individual bills passed by the House last week was a proposal to provide grants for law enforcement-sponsored pre-booking diversion programs, which offer treatment for low level drug offenders instead of incarceration. Early results show that such programs can reduce drug use and recidivism among participants and lead to long-term savings for local law enforcement and courts, who can then focus on more serious violent criminals.
Furthermore, the bill consolidates multiple drug resistance programs into a single comprehensive grant to the states that would carry multiple purposes, including training and purchasing rescue drugs for emergency medical personnel, funding addiction treatment programs, and support or local law enforcement.
Highlights of other bills passed by the House of Representatives last week include:
• H.R. 1818: The “Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act” which would allow veterans to claim EMT training hours that were acquired during their time in the military to count toward mandatory training hours for EMT licensure in each state.
• H.R. 4586: “Lali’s Law” which would encourage states to establish standing orders that allow pharmacists to dispense overdose rescue medications to addicts, family members, emergency medical technicians and nonprofit organizations without a specific prescription from a medical provider. It would also support education and training for medical professionals and the general public.
• H.R. 4843: The “Improving Safe Care for the Prevention of Infant Abuse and Neglect Act” which would require the Department of Health and Human Services to review state safe care plans to ensure that they comply with the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
• H.R. 4641: A bill to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes.
According to Hanna, Upstate New York has seen a spike in opioid addiction, namely heroin and prescription pain pills. It’s a trend that’s occurring in communities across the nation, he said, and deserves the attention of elected officials to help curtail the dangers.
“No community is immune to this crisis,” Hanna said, adding that Republicans and Democrats in the House are working together to curb opioid abuse. “Heroin and pain pill addiction does not discriminate on age, race, gender or socioeconomic status. Your neighbor could be using heroin, or so could their high-honors high school students. The problem is very real, it is here, and it is a full-blown health crisis.”
Among 18 individual bills passed by the House last week was a proposal to provide grants for law enforcement-sponsored pre-booking diversion programs, which offer treatment for low level drug offenders instead of incarceration. Early results show that such programs can reduce drug use and recidivism among participants and lead to long-term savings for local law enforcement and courts, who can then focus on more serious violent criminals.
Furthermore, the bill consolidates multiple drug resistance programs into a single comprehensive grant to the states that would carry multiple purposes, including training and purchasing rescue drugs for emergency medical personnel, funding addiction treatment programs, and support or local law enforcement.
Highlights of other bills passed by the House of Representatives last week include:
• H.R. 1818: The “Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act” which would allow veterans to claim EMT training hours that were acquired during their time in the military to count toward mandatory training hours for EMT licensure in each state.
• H.R. 4586: “Lali’s Law” which would encourage states to establish standing orders that allow pharmacists to dispense overdose rescue medications to addicts, family members, emergency medical technicians and nonprofit organizations without a specific prescription from a medical provider. It would also support education and training for medical professionals and the general public.
• H.R. 4843: The “Improving Safe Care for the Prevention of Infant Abuse and Neglect Act” which would require the Department of Health and Human Services to review state safe care plans to ensure that they comply with the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
• H.R. 4641: A bill to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes.
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