{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-hosts-roundtable-discussion-on-opioids-in-ranson", "Manchin Hosts Roundtable Discussion on Opioids in Ranson", "2018-09-19", "2018", "2018-09", "Democrat", "House", "WV", "Joe Manchin", "M001183", "www.manchin.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "September 19, 2018\n\t\t\t Manchin Hosts Roundtable Discussion on Opioids in Ranson \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWashington, D.C.  U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), co-chair of the Senate Caucus on Prescription Drug Abuse, hosted a roundtable discussion today at the Jefferson County Day Reporter Center in Ranson with community and healthcare leaders to discuss the opioid epidemic in West Virginia. Earlier this week Senator Manchin secured a provision in the Opioid Crisis Response Act that passed the Senate that will continue to ensure that West Virginia will receive more funding to fight the opioid epidemic.\r\nWith the highest overdose rate per capita of any state in our nation, every community and family in the Mountain State is impacted by the opioid epidemic. I appreciate the community leaders who joined me at the Jefferson County Day Report Center to discuss the progress we have made, the solutions we are seeing first hand and what more can be done - both in West Virginia and in Washington  to ensure no family suffers at the hands of this epidemic again, Senator Manchin said.\r\nSenator Manchin worked to include the following provisions in the Opioid Crisis Response 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    \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-hosts-roundtable-discussion-on-opioids-in-ranson"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2068161740899086, "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"}