Support the Addiction Treatment Access Improvement Act of 2018July 23, 2018 Senator Claire McCaskill's (D-Mo) office on July 12 released a report finding that over the last six years, enough opioids were shipped into the state of Missouri to give every resident 260 pills. While that is a snapshot of just one state, combine that news with the latest report and alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the number of overdose deaths involving fentanyl and similar drugs nearly doubled between the last half of 2016 and the first half of 2017, and it becomes clear that the opioid crisis is still destroying the lives of individuals, families, and communities in epic proportions.
Ask your senators to follow the House's example and support legislation that would grant and extend nurses the ability to prescribe life-saving treatment for opioid addiction.
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