Subject: Anti-Opioid Medical Treatments
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 01:01:16 +0000
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House Action Reports Supplement to the Legislative Week of May 9 is now available on our website: http://www.cq.com/doc/har-4883838

The supplement deals with HR 4981, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Expansion and Modernization Act. The bill modifies rules regarding the administering of medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction to expand such treatment without raising the current patient cap - including by allowing qualified nurse practitioners and physician assistants to provide such services, not just physicians, and by allowing patients who are administered the drugs in a medical office to be exempted from the patient caps. It expresses the sense of Congress that the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) should increase the current 100-patient cap by regulation, and it also allows prescriptions for drugs under Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act to be just partially filled rather than fully filled, to reduce the potential for abuse.

The measure is one of a series of bills that House leaders are bringing to the floor this week that are intended to help combat opioid abuse. It is expected to be considered Wednesday under suspension of the rules.

Chuck Conlon
CQ House Action Reports

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