Bipartisan Heroin Task Force to push agenda that includes 'robust funding' to address opioid crisis
David Levinsky. The Burlington County Times
The US House of Representatives' Bipartisan Heroin Task Force kicked off the new year on Wednesday by unveiling an expanded agenda that includes several new measures and a push for increased funding to help get a grip on the country's deadly opioid addiction crisis...
..."(Funding) saivs lves, and it also saves money," Fitzpatrick said during Wednesday's news conference with MacArthur, Kuster, and Norcross. "for every dollar we invest in treatment and prevention and education, we save exponentially more in the criminal justice system and even more in the health care system"...
...Norcross said the growth of the caucus us both encouraging and tragic as it reflects how the problem has continued to expand and claim lives.