{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-applauds-final-passage-of-opioid-package-that-will-ensure-west-virginians-ger-triple-the-funding-this-year-to-fight-the-opioid-crisis", "Manchin Applauds Final Passage Of Opioid Package That Will Ensure West Virginians Ger Triple The Funding This Year To Fight The Opioid Crisis", "2018-10-03", "2018", "2018-10", "Democrat", "House", "WV", "Joe Manchin", "M001183", "www.manchin.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "October 03, 2018\n\t\t\t Manchin Applauds Final Passage Of Opioid Package That Will Ensure West Virginians Ger Triple The Funding This Year To Fight The Opioid Crisis \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWashington, D.C.  U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) applauds the final passage of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, which includes a provision that Senator Manchin pushed for that will ensure that West Virginia receives its fair share of federal funding to fight the opioid epidemic. Originally, much of the funding that states received to fight the opioid epidemic was based heavily on the number of overdose deaths rather than the rate of overdose deaths. Unfortunately, this disproportionally hurt states like West Virginia, which has a small population but has the highest need. Senator Manchin fought during the Appropriations process and conference committee to ensure that states that have been hit the hardest by the opioid epidemic receive more funding.\r\nI applaud my House and Senate colleagues for working together to pass this important legislation that will help our country and West Virginia better fight and end the opioid epidemic. This legislation will have a real impact on millions of people's lives and is a shining example of what we can achieve when we work together in regular order.\r\nWest Virginia has the highest overdose rate per capita of any state in our nation and the impacts of this epidemic can be felt in every family, every community and every corner of our state. That's why I made sure that this bill included a set aside for states like West Virginia where mortality rates are through the roof. This language more than tripled the amount of funding coming to our state for this coming year, and I will continue to fight to ensure West Virginia is getting our fair share of funding to fight this epidemic, Senator Manchin said.\r\nSenator Manchin worked to include the following provisions in the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act:\r\n \r\nOpioid Funding for hard hit states: Reauthorizes and makes improvements to the State Targeted Opioid Response (STR) program to help states better fight the opioid epidemic, including updates to the formula.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproving communication and information sharing between medical professionals and patients: Includes language to better facilitate quality coordinated care for individuals with a history of substance use disorder treatment, but does not go far enough.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproving Access to Treatment and Recovery: The bill establishes a grant program to create comprehensive opioid recovery centers in hard hit communities.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproving FDA Response to the Opioid Crisis: Strengthens the FDA's response to the crisis in several ways including by supporting the development of non-opioid pain treatments and by pushing the agency to do more to consider the risks of drugs that may be misused or abused.\r\n \r\n \r\nExamining Opioid Prescription Limits: Requires the Secretary of HHS to issue a report on limiting opioid prescriptions.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproving Youth Prevention and Recovery Services: Includes grant funding to strengthen youth prevention and recovery services, particularly in schools.\r\n \r\n \r\nConsumer and Provider Education: Advance awareness of the risks of opioid misuse and abuse by strengthening CDC's efforts to educate consumers and providers.\r\n \r\n \r\nTrauma-Informed Care for Youth: Includes funding to support programs that offer trauma-informed care for youth. Due to Senator Manchin's efforts, the bill will specifically allow funding to go to programs like West Virginia's Handle with Care program, which helps connect students who have been involved in traumatic events in the home, particularly related to substance use, to trauma informed care in the schools.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproving Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Encourages providers to use PDMPs and improving interoperability between PDMPs and health IT systems.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproving NIH's Response: Encouraging research into non-addictive pain-killers, pain care, and signs/risk factors of substance use disorders. \r\n \r\n \r\nImproving Coordination between FDA & CBP: Improving FDA's tools for working with CBP to improve the detection and seizure of illegal drugs, including fentanyl.\r\n \r\n \r\nExpands access to medication assisted treatment: Allows a wider array of medical professionals to prescribe MAT and codifies the higher number of patients that can be served by an individual doctor. Also provides funding to educate medical professionals on prescribing MAT.\r\n \r\n \r\nProtecting people seeking treatment: Clarifies the Federal Trade Commission's authority to bring enforcement actions against opioid treatment scams, including deceptive treatment claims and bogus products.\r\n \r\n \r\nSupport for communities and workers hit by the epidemic: Provides resources to communities and workers to provide treatment services and job training/transition services for those in recovery.\r\n \r\n \r\nImproves Medicare and Medicaid policy to address the epidemic: Strengthens efforts to promote treatment and reduce opioid abuse among Medicare beneficiaries.\r\n \r\n \r\nSupport for babies with NAS: It clarifies that Medicaid can paid for babies with neo-natal abstinence syndrome in residential pediatric recovery centers.\r\n \r\n \r\nReauthorizes critical drug prevention programs including: ONDCP, the Drug-Free Communities grant program, the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program, and the drug court program.\r\n \r\n \r\nReforms DEA Quotas: Requires DEA to consider diversion, abuse, overdose deaths and public health impacts when setting quotas and requires them to justify any quota increase.\r\n \r\n \r\nProvider education: Requires HHS and DOJ to complete a plan for educating and training medical practitioners on prescribing controlled substances.\r\n \r\n \r\nDEA enforcement: Requires the pharma industry to design systems to identify and report suspicious orders and requires DEA to establish a database for the collection of all suspicious orders.\r\n \r\n###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-applauds-final-passage-of-opioid-package-that-will-ensure-west-virginians-ger-triple-the-funding-this-year-to-fight-the-opioid-crisis"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6138199716806412, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}