The senator spearheading the effort to tackle opioid addiction tells The Hill that “prevention” measures need to be included in any legislation sent to President Obama.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) tells The Hill’s Molly K. Hooper that making the link between prescription opioid use and heroin addiction also must be a high priority.
Watch the video above to hear Portman, Drug Enforcement Agency Deputy Assistant Administrator Louis Milione and Sen. Shelley Moore-Capito (R-W.Va.) discuss the explosion of the opioid epidemic and Congress’s actions to curb it.