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Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act Skates Through House

July 14, 2016

A measure that would incentivize the development of abuse-deterrent opioids moved one step closer to becoming law.

A conference report on the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524) passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a near-party line vote last week, 243-177.

The measure represents a compromise between House and Senate visions for combatting the opioid crisis, and stems from a House-Senate conference report issued earlier this week. Along with the provision encouraging abuse-deterrent opioid development, the measure also mandates advisory committee review of investigational opioid drugs.

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