The U.S. Senate passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 in a nearly unanimous vote to assuage the problem with preventive measures, including supporting research, fast-tracking prospective nonaddictive pain medications, implementing blister packs for three- or seven-day opioid prescriptions, and funding improvements to state opioid prescription monitoring systems.
The bill, passed on Monday, Sept. 17, after months of proposals and reviews from five major Senate committees, also