WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Primary Health and Retirement Security Subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee today led his colleagues in writing to Christopher Carroll, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), urging it to reverse new guidance barring grant recipients from purchasing and distributing life-saving tools, such as fentanyl test strips, for people with substance use disorders.
SAMHSA's new guidance defies evidence showing that harm reduction for substance use reduces overdose deaths and dangerous infections, threatenin...