Bipartisan Heroin Task Force to push agenda that includes 'robust funding' to address opioid crisis
Burlington County Times. By David Levinsky
...Also in the agenda is legislation written by MacArthur to expand the ability of family members to use funds in employer-based health savings and flexible savings accounts for drug treatment, as well as a bill penned by Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st of Camden, that would require the federal government to create guidelines for required courses on drug addiction for doctors and aspiring physicians before they can receive a license to prescribe powerful narcotics.
..."Our caucus is growing, and for good reason. There's not a member in Congress who has not been part of a funeral (for a victim of substance addiction)," he said. "It's not going away. People are dying. I just buried a friend of mine in the last month. It touches each and every one of us, and we can't ignore it."