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H.R. 5202

Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 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.

Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.

Rep. Costello, Ryan A. [R-PA-6](R-PA)Sponsor
7 cosponsors1 D6 R
7cosponsors2committees10actions2related bills6subjects
  1. Committee

    Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.

    Energy and Commerce Committee
  2. Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Energy and Commerce Committee
  3. Committee

    Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .

    Health Subcommittee
  4. Committee

    Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

    Health Subcommittee
  5. Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

    Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee
  6. Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

    Health Subcommittee
  7. IntroReferralH11100

    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
  8. IntroReferralH11100

    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
  9. IntroReferralIntro-H

    Introduced in House

  10. IntroReferral1000

    Introduced in House

Ensuring Patient Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatments Act of 2018 — Informed