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Senate Bill 2697
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Unused Medications Awareness Act
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Introduced in Senate on Apr 18, 2018
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S. 2697 (Introduced-in-Senate)


115th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2697


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.

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.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Unused Medications Awareness Act”.

SEC. 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.”.