Brownley (D-CA) - Amendment No.1 - Adds the HHS Office of Women’s Health to the task force (10 minutes)
Brooks (R-IN) [on behalf of Carter (R-GA)] - Amendment No. 2 - Clarifies that doctors, non-physician prescribers, and pharmacists who participate on the task force are licensed and currently practicing. (10 minutes)
Grayson (D-FL) Amendment No. 3 - Adds first responders to the task force (10 minutes)
Clark (D-MA) - Amendment No. 4 - Adds an expert in adolescent and young adult addiction to the task force along with a person whose addiction began in adolescence or young adulthood (10 minutes)
Pallone (D-NJ) [on behalf of Moulton (D-MA)] - Amendment No. 5 - Adds veteran service organization representation to the task force (10 minutes)
Nolan (D-MN) - Amendment No. 6 - Adds active duty military, armed forces personnel, and veteran health representation to the task force (10 minutes)
Watson Coleman (D-NJ) - Amendment No. 7 - Adds an expert in the field of minority health to the task force (10 minutes)
Kuster (D-NH) - Amendment No. 8 - Requires the task force to research addiction trends in communities with high rates of prescription drug abuse (10 minutes)
Schiff (D-CA) - Amendment No. 9 - Requires the task force to consider information collected from State prescription drug monitoring programs (10 minutes)
Clark (D-MA) - Amendment No. 10 - Directs the task force to consider the potential benefits of electronic prescribing of opioids (10 minutes)
Rothfus (R-PA) - Amendment No. 11 - Requires the task force to consider the practice of co-prescribing naloxone (10 minutes)
Clark (D-MA) - Amendment No. 12 - Directs the Task Force to consider, in the course of developing best practices, Federal agency programs and research relative to substance use and substance use disorders among adolescents and young adults, as well as any gaps identified by Federal government programs or researchers in the prevention of, treatment for, and recovery from substance use by and substance use disorders among adolescents and young adults (10 minutes)
Esty (D-CT) - Amendment No. 13 - Requires the task force to review best practices, particularly as they pertain to physician education and consumer education (10 minutes)
Welch (D-VT) - Amendment No. 14 - Requires the task force to examine the extent of the need to develop alternatives to opioids for pain management (10 minutes)
Sessions (R-TX) - Amendment No. 15 - Requires the task force takes into consideration existing private sector, State, and local government efforts related to pain management and prescribing pain medication (10 minutes)
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