There is not a single community in our country that has been left untouched by the #OpioidCrisis. In Louisiana, we lost nearly 1,000 lives to this crisis in 2016.pic.twitter.com/fEFZQZzCDf
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.@HouseCommerce, the committee on which I sit, advanced 57 bills to the House floor to address this crisis.
Our work, combined with the work of almost every House committee, has allowed us to find well-rounded, bipartisan solutions to this epidemic.
This week, the House passed more than 70 bills to meet this crisis head-on.pic.twitter.com/OyqIik77ri
We passed bills to help get fentanyl—one of the leading causes of overdose deaths—off the street… to increase educational resources to prevent future addiction cases… to provide more resources to those in need of treatment.pic.twitter.com/0wvCqX0Xlf
While there is much work to be done, I’m proud of what we accomplished this week and I look forward to continuing this important effort to combat what is truly the #CrisisNextDoor.
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