“The short-term funding bill that Senate Republicans released Thursday includes $37 million in new funding to fight the crisis of opioid addiction.
Republicans said that the new money would give a head start to setting up programs in the recently passed Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), preventing the need to wait until the longer-term spending bill is considered in December.
Democrats have pushed for a much higher amount of funding, $1.1 billion over a full year, saying that robust resources are what is actually needed to make sure people have access to treatment.”
Read more at: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/297293-funding-bill-includes-37-million-for-opioid-crisis
Source: TheHill.com – September 22, 2016
