WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led 10 of his Senate colleagues in calling on the Trump administration to reverse new guidance issued this week that ends the ability of federal grant recipients under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to use federal funding for test strips that detect fentanyl and other illicit drugs and help reduce overdoses and drug-related deaths.
"Your actions will directly undermine the work of law enforcement and put lives at risk," the senators wrote in their letter to Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "Doing away with this mainstay of overdose prevention runs direct...