In the Senate of the United States,
December 22 (legislative day, December 21), 2020.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3153) entitled “An Act to direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support research on opioid addiction, and for other purposes.”, do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
SECTION 1. Short title; findings.
(a) Short title.—This Act may be cited as the “Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act” or the “EFFORT Act”.
(b) Findings.—The Congress finds that—
(2) the National Science Foundation’s research on opioid addiction has increased understanding of the neuroscience of addiction, substance abuse intervention, the role of illicit supply networks, the secondary effects on families, the use of technology to address the opioid epidemic, and options for alternative, non-addictive therapeutics for pain; and
SEC. 2. NSF support of research on opioid addiction.
The Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall support merit-reviewed and competitively awarded research on the science of opioid addiction.
Attest:
Secretary
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