Spanberger bill addresses drug overdose epidemic
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Virginia reported a record number of drug overdose deaths in 2020 — including a 47 percent increase in the number of opioid-related deaths from 2019 to 2020.
Search Results for opioid crisis
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Morgan Griffith: Biden’s first 100 days
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President Biden recently marked his first 100 days in office. This column will highlight the parts of his record during that time that demand accountability.
Warner pushes for release of telehealth guidance to expand access to medical treatment
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) is urging the Biden administration to finalize regulations long-delayed by prior administrations allowing doctors to prescribe controlled substances through telehealth.
Spanberger, Kustoff reintroduce CAST Act to crack down on narcotics traffickers
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Drug traffickers are turning to counterfeit drug manufacturing as a strategy to profit from opioid abuse and addiction.
Morgan Griffith: Leading oversight efforts on the Energy and Commerce Committee
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The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is charged with conducting oversight over areas within the committee’s jurisdiction.
Update: Good, Webb call on each other to divest controversial stock holdings
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Fifth District Democratic congressional nominee Dr. Cameron Webb is calling on his Republican opponent, Bob Good, to divest his holdings in two companies that did business with Campbell County when Good was a member of the Campbell County Board of Supervisors.
Morgan Griffith: Key pieces of health legislation move forward
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The coronavirus pandemic has consumed the attention of the country, but health care challenges that existed before COVID-19 ever came about remain.
Griffith-sponsored bills advance in House Energy and Commerce Committee
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A House Energy and Commerce Committee markup Wednesday advanced several bills introduced or cosponsored by Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09).
Northam announces expansion of data sharing platform to help combat COVID-19
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Virginia’s cross-agency, cloud-based, data-sharing and analytics platform is expanding to help the Commonwealth mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and maintain an adequate supply of resources.
Alon Ben-Meir: Trump’s disastrous domestic policy
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Sadly, we have become accustomed to Trump’s lies and misstatements about the presumed progress the US made under his watch.
