A group of eight senators on Tuesday unveiled bipartisan legislation that would increase funding for addiction treatment and prevention by roughly $1 billion and impose a sweeping three-day limit on opioid prescriptions for initial pain treatment.
The CARA 2.0 Act, billed as the sequel to the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of late 2016, would be the most substantive action Congress has taken to address the opioid crisis since President Trump took office.
The legislation’s unveiling comes as Republicans in both chambers of Congress are ramping up their legislative efforts to address the opioids crisis. The two-year budget deal Congress passed earlier this year included $6 billion in extra funding to address the crisis in 2018 and 2019, but offered only broad outlines of how the funds would be used. Now, legislators, lobbyists, and policy advocates are hurrying to identify policies that could fit into that funding framework.
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The best way to control pain after surgery it to ignore the DR orders TO TAKE WHOLE DOSE EVERY 4 hours! DO this instead: cut all pain meds into quarter pieces. Take first dose as instructed by your doc…then as soon as you feel ANY pin take one quarter of the med and continue this. You will find you have leftover meds! It works and Yes pain specialist is a part of my job description for many years. I have taught this to many patients and no I did not learn this in medical school my dentist taught me after a root canal!
Someone needs to tell the stupid lawmakers what is really going on. Fix the problem where the problem is not where it is easy for you to develop political soundbites for campaign F$ & Photo opportunities.
Someone needs to tell the stupid lawmakers what is really going on. Fix the problem where the problem is not where it is easy for you to develop political soundbites for campaign F$ & Photo opportunities.