Unused Medications Awareness Act

Bill: 115-s-2697
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA]
Introduced: 2018-04-18
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug trafficking and controlled substances

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Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-18
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Unused Medications Awareness Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 to add information about dispensing options to the Department of Health and Human Services education and awareness campaign regarding the risk of abuse of prescription opioids if the drugs are not taken as prescribed.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2697 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 18, 2018 Ms. Warren (for herself and Mrs. Capito ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To require the awareness campaign regarding the risk of abuse of prescription opioids if such drugs are not taken as prescribed to include information about dispensing options.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Unused Medications Awareness Act . 2. Awareness campaigns Section 102(b) of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–198 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ; and and inserting ; ; (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (4) dispensing options under section 309(f) of the Controlled Substances Act, as applicable. .