Today, I joined @JoshShapiroPA and leadership from Reading Hospital and the Berks Counseling Center to discuss our community’s response to the opioid epidemic. 1/pic.twitter.com/Ini0cxqaGe
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I’m cosponsoring two bipartisan bills: (1) The Opioid Workforce Act of 2019, which would create 1,000 additional residency positions at hospitals like the one I visited today to train doctors in addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry, or pain management programs and 4/
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(2) The State Opioid Response Grant Authorization Act, which provides federal grants to states for response to the opioid epidemic. PA received $55.9M in these grants last year, but the need continues across the country. 5/5
