Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Mar 7, 2018)
Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018
This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a pharmacy to deliver a controlled substance to a practitioner, in accordance with a prescription, to be administered to a specific patient for maintenance or detoxification treatment or through an intrathecal pump.
The bill directs the Government Accountability Office to report to Congress on access to and the potential diversion of controlled substances administered by injection, implantation, or through the use of an intrathecal pump.
What just happenedMay 9, 2018
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseMar 7, 2018
- May 9, 2018Committee
Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Energy and Commerce Committee - May 9, 2018Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Apr 25, 2018Committee
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
Health Subcommittee - Apr 25, 2018Committee
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Health Subcommittee - Apr 6, 2018Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee - Mar 9, 2018Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Health Subcommittee - Mar 7, 2018IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Judiciary Committee - Mar 7, 2018IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Energy and Commerce Committee - Mar 7, 2018IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Mar 7, 2018IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House