03.02.16

Senate Continues Work to Pass the Bipartisan Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding his discussion with the President on the nation's drug epidemic and bipartisan legislation to help address this national crisis: "We had a constructive discussion about legislative issues like the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic sweeping our country and the important bill we'll continue considering today to help address it. "The Comprehensive Addiction and Recove… Continue Reading

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02.29.16

Bipartisan Bill Would Help Communities, Law Enforcement Combat the Opioid, Heroin Epidemic

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding bipartisan efforts in the Senate to address the nation's prescription opioid and heroin epidemic: "There is an epidemic sweeping across our nation. "Ripping through communities. Tearing families apart. Striking at the vulnerable, even babies who have yet to take a first breath. "The prescription opioid and heroin epidemic does not discriminate by demographic or socio-e… Continue Reading

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02.25.16

Senate Continues Bipartisan Efforts to Address the Opioid Epidemic, Help Families Impacted by Drug Abuse

'There are steps we can take today to help families impacted by drug abuse - and keep more families from ever going through it to begin with. That's why I'm proud to join my colleague, the Senior Senator from Iowa, in introducing the Protecting Families Affected by Substance Abuse Act, which would reauthorize grants to help children in foster care, or at risk of being placed there, because of their parent's drug habits…there are a number of other important pieces of related legislation he… Continue Reading

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10.21.15

McConnell Encouraged by White House Focus on Addressing Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Epidemic

'I'm encouraged to see both [ONDCP Director Botticelli] and the President engaged and proposing certain steps that my home state of Kentucky has embraced.' WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding his bipartisan legislation and the President's announcement to address our nation's drug epidemic: "I'd like to note that President Obama will be travelling to West Virginia today with ONDCP Director Botticelli to an… Continue Reading

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03.19.15

McConnell Unveils Bipartisan Bill to Combat Maternal Addiction and Infant Opioid Withdrawal

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the Protecting Our Infants Act: "Next month, I look forward to hosting our nation's newest Drug Czar at a forum in Covington, Kentucky. It's a forum that will allow Director Botticelli to hear firsthand accounts of the devastating impact of one of America's most significant public health challenges, one that continues to hit my state particularly hard: The growing epidem… Continue Reading