House Passes Walden-Led Package to Combat Opioid Crisis

By Neil Bomberg
on June 22, 2018

In a bipartisan vote of 396-14, the House passed the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6) – a piece of legislation that combines dozens of opioid-related bills passed over the last two weeks with base text and provisions that passed through the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The bill tackles many aspects of the opioid crisis, helping advance treatment and recovery initiatives, improving prevention, and authorizing state and local grants for the establishment or operation of public health labs to detect fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. See this bill summary for further detail.

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Neil is a highly experienced public sector lobbyist committed to ensuring that the issues important to regions and the local governments they represent are heard in Congress and the Administration. Neil's issue areas include: budget and appropriations, human services, health care, workforce development, and economic and community development. Neil worked as a lobbyist at the National Association of Counties and National League of Cities for more than 26 years where he focused on labor and employment, and human development, respectively.

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