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| 1913638 | 2d09b033-9a99-44f2-9fd0-8c11cbfd801c | Q4 | BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION | 6358 | BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION | 2016 | fourth_quarter | PHA | Opioid Abuse; Opioid Education; Prescription Drugs HR 953 Introduced February 12, 2015 by James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI) Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2015 Overdoses from heroin, prescription drugs, and opioid pain relievers last year surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Deaths have reached their highest levels of the 21st century in 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Heroin overdoses have more than tripled in the last five years, an issue receiving outsize attention nationally but especially during the presidential campaign season as New Hampshire has been one of the hardest-hit states. New legislation aims to tackle this epidemic. The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, S. 524 and H.R. 953, was introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI5) and will receive a hearing on Thursday from the Senate Judiciary Committee. HR 2805 Heroin and Prescription Opioid Abuse Prevention, Education, and Enforcement -Act of 2015 Introduced June 17, 2915 by Susan Brooks (R-IN) This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in cooperation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), to convene a Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force to develop and study best practices for pain management and prescription of pain medication. HR 4499 Introduced February 9, 2016 by Alex Mooney (R-VA) Promoting Responsible Opioid Prescribing Act of 2016. To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to remove consideration of certain pain-related issues from calculations under the Medicare hospital value-based purchasing program, and for other purposes. | Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS),HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,SENATE,White House Office | 2160000 | 0 | 0 | 2017-01-15T21:24:38-05:00 |