Bills Calling For Non-Pharma Alternatives To Opioids Clear US House

Several bills that try to lift barriers to development and use of device alternatives for pain management in response to the opioid crisis were recently approved by the US House.

An ampoule Opioid next to it is a note written in English Opioid epidemic. All around, many tablets and syringes are scattered.

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More than two dozen pieces of opioid-crisis related legislation have been approved by the US House in the first half of June. Several of them call for use of devices...

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