"This legislation will help cut off the opioid crisis at its roots," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement. "It will stop more drugs at the border, improve interstate monitoring, and encourage reform of prescription dosing." The legislation now heads back to the House of Representatives to bring it in line with the Senate's language. Known as the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act ("STOP" Act), that portion of the legislation requires that the U.S. The House legislation also added methadone clinics to Medicare, among other measures.

Source: Fox News September 18, 2018 00:55 UTC