Opioid Bills Would Up Feds’ Control Over Quotas, Imports

https://www.law360.com/lifesciences/articles/1021311/opioid-bills-would-up-feds-control-over-quotas-imports

Law360 (March 13, 2018, 7:55 PM EDT) — Federal lawmakers this week introduced bills to tackle the national opioid crisis, with a bipartisan group of senators pushing to give the Drug Enforcement Administration more control over manufacturing quotas and a Democratic congressman looking to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more power to block unapproved drug imports.

Monday’s Senate legislation, brought by Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and members Dick Durbin, D-Ill., John Kennedy, R-La., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., would make the DEA consider public health factors — like diversion, abuse and…

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  1. I doubt giving the DEA more control over anything is the wrong way to go!!

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