With Drug Overdose on the Rise in Ohio, Brown to Introduce Bill that Would Increase Access to Treatment for People Addicted to Opiates
May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has issued the following news release:
With a record 2,110 fatal drug overdoses in Ohio in 2013, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will work with his Senate colleagues to reintroduce a bipartisan bill this week that will allow health care providers to treat larger numbers of patients struggling with addiction to opioids like painkillers and heroin. The Recovery Enhancement for Addiction Treatment Act (TREAT Act) would up . . .
With a record 2,110 fatal drug overdoses in Ohio in 2013, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will work with his Senate colleagues to reintroduce a bipartisan bill this week that will allow health care providers to treat larger numbers of patients struggling with addiction to opioids like painkillers and heroin. The Recovery Enhancement for Addiction Treatment Act (TREAT Act) would up . . .