House Passes SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act to Combat America’s Opioid Crisis

Opioid abuse and addiction in America has reached epidemic heights. As a nation, we’re spending more than $500 billion annually in health and social costs to combat this growing problem. What’s more, the Department of Health and Human Services reports more than 40,000 lives lost in 2016 from overdosing on these pain management treatments.
Long-term solutions to combating this crisis will depend upon biomedical innovation and the development of novel and safer, next generation therapi