An anti-addiction group is blasting the GOP’s first public draft of its opioids bill for leaving out a key provision that would have made more doctors cross-check their states’ drug database before prescribing painkillers.
The 217-page draft released Tuesday no longer ties federal grant money to whether a state enforces the use of its prescription drug monitoring program. Several national drug policy experts had called that provision one of the most important pieces of the opioids package.
“I’m sick to my stomach,” Gary Mendell, the founder and CEO of Shatterproof said in an interview Tuesday.
