➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Obama signs into law opioid addiction bill to protect newborns
Health Medicine Network – July 22, 2016
The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act also stresses drug treatment and overdose prevention to help stanch the nation’s heroin and opioid drug epidemic. Obama said in a statement that 78 Americans die from opioid overdose every day, and noted that the legislation included only modest steps to address the epidemic. Also: Federal legislation to tackle opioid crisis due to become law; Whitehouse one of four sponsors: http://www.pbn.com/Federal-legislation-to-tackle-opioid-crisis-due-to-become-law-Whitehouse-one-of-four-sponsors,115896
http://healthmedicinet.com/i/obama-signs-into-law-opioid-addiction-bill-to-protect-newborns/