Clerk session vote number: 423
Description: Synthetic Opiod Danger Awareness Act
Bill summary: Synthetic Opioid Danger Awareness Act
This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide education and training related to synthetic opioids, including fentanyl and its analogues.
Specifically, HHS must launch a public education campaign on the dangers of synthetic opioids and related issues.
HHS must also produce training materials to prevent exposure to synthetic opioids for first responders and others who areĀ at high risk of such exposure and disseminate the
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materials to ambulance transport personnel, local sheriff deputies, and other first responders and individuals in high-risk occupations.
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Bill titles: To amend title III of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to provide for a public education campaign to raise public awareness of synthetic opioids.
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