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| http://kuster.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/kuster-applauds-progress-of-her-task-force-s-legislative-agenda-to | Kuster Applauds Progress of Her Task Forces Legislative Agenda to Address the National Opioid Crisis in the House this Week | 2016-04-29 | 2016 | 2016-04 | Democrat | House | NH | Ann Kuster | K000382 | kuster.house.gov | legacy | Washington, DC Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) released the following statement applauding House action this week to consider crucially important bills to address the opioid crisis sweeping the nation, including four bills that were part of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemics recently released legislative agenda. Kuster is the co-founder of the Task Force, and she urged House leadership to take swift action to consider these bills last week during a press conference at the House Triangle. Last week, the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic was proud to introduce a bipartisan package of bills to immediately address the opioid epidemic that is devastating so many of our families. During our press conference, we impressed upon House Leadership the vital importance of immediately taking up these bills for consideration; far too many lives are at stake to allow this legislation to languish. Im so pleased to announce that four of the bills in our agenda, along with a number of other similar pieces of legislation, have been passed out of committee this week. But we cannot stop here. I urge Leadership to immediately bring these bills to the floor for consideration, and I urge similar consideration of ALL the bills in our Task Forces Legislative Agenda in the coming days. Countless Granite Staters and Americans around the country are in critical need, and we must take action now. Kuster has helped lead the fight to address the heroin and opioid crisis at the federal level and in her home state of New Hampshire, and she has been an outspoken advocate of the need to pass legislation to immediately fight the epidemic. This week, a number of bills that she has pushed for were approved by committee, including five from her Task Forces recently released Agenda. These bills include (but are not limited to): Lailis Law, which would help states increase access to naloxone, a life-saving drug that can counter the effects of an overdose; and the Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016, which would allow prescriptions to be partially filled at the request of doctors or patients, in order to cut down on overprescribing and the reselling of unused prescription drugs on the street. A number of other important bills to increase access to treatment, assess best practices for pain management and improve educational prevention efforts across the country were also approved by House committees this week. Earlier this year, the House Veterans Affairs Committee passed another bill on the Task Forces Agenda. That bill was the Promise Act, which would help improve pain management practices and prescription drug management at the VA to help prevent opioid addiction among veterans ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |