Understanding the opioid crisis In America
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The opioid crisis in America is so widespread that you likely have a loved one or know someone who is addicted.
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Virginia receives additional $9.7 million grant to fight opioid crisis
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Governor Northam announced that Virginia received another $9.76 million in federal grant funding to help fight the opioid epidemic.
Senate committee passes Kaine-sponsored opioid addiction recovery legislation
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded Committee passage of legislation he co-sponsored called The Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018.
Morgan Griffith: Helping solve a community crisis
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Perhaps this person is your neighbor or friend. Perhaps you know this person from church or went to school together. Perhaps this person is your brother or sister, your father or mother, your son or daughter.
Virginia increases access to opioid program
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Governor Ralph Northam announced Monday that Virginia’s signature Medicaid initiative for addressing opioid addiction and other substance use disorders has generated significant results in its first year, increasing access to treatment and reducing the burden on hospital emergency departments.
Kaine, Young, Jones introduce bill to ensure addiction recovery programs include job training
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U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Todd Young (R-IN), and Doug Jones (D-AL), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Jobs Plus Recovery Act to incorporate job training into drug addiction recovery programs.
Surgeon General releases advisory on Naloxone: Opioid overdose-reversing drug
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., urged more Americans to carry a lifesaving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Morgan Griffith: Billy Graham and the opioid crisis
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Members of Congress gathered together on the morning of Wednesday, February 28, not to vote or meet in committee, but for another important purpose: to honor the life of Reverend Billy Graham, who died on February 21.
Kaine, colleagues ask health insurance companies to play bigger role in fighting opioid crisis
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined a group of Senators in asking the nation’s top health insurers to play a bigger role in combating the opioid crisis.
Kaine joins colleagues in Senate bill expanding funding to fight opioid crisis
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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) joined Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) to introduce the Opioid Response Enhancement Act to help states better fight the opioid epidemic that has put a strain on communities in Virginia and across the country.
