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Bill would make lockboxes, safes available through health care providers |
Bipartisan House members want to make sure parents of children at risk of overdose or suicide have access to supplies to keep their kids safe. |
A new bill shared first with The Hill from Reps. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) would help health care providers to purchase and distribute "lethal means safety" supplies — like lockboxes or safes — for children at risk of overdose or suicide. Physicians would then provide parents with the means to safely store opioids or other dangerous materials and keep them away from at-risk children in the home. The idea of lethal means safety focuses on temporarily securing whatever a child may be considering using to commit suicide, such as drugs or weapons. Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced companion legislation in the Senate. The legislation amends part of the SUPPORT Act, which focuses on prevention, treatment and recovery services for opioid misuse, including fentanyl. The bill was first passed in 2018, but lawmakers missed a September deadline to reauthorize many of its provisions. The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously passed a limited version of the bill over the summer, but the full House chamber hasn't yet approved the legislation. It's not clear whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) considers the bill a priority. The Senate Health Committee will meet next week to consider its version of the bill. |
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The Biden administration is delaying a decision on whether to ban menthol flavored cigarettes amid intense lobbying from critics including the tobacco industry, industry-backed groups and some Black criminal justice advocates. The delay is alarming public health groups, which fear that the White House could cave to pressure and delay the rule indefinitely, especially against the backdrop of President Biden's reelection … |
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Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen unveiled Wednesday sanctions against two companies and 15 people that the United States says have links to Mexican drug cartel. "We cannot end the U.S. opioid crisis and achieve greater security without looking beyond our borders," Yellen said in Mexico City, according to The Associated Press. Yellen is in Mexico this week following a Treasury Department announcement of a strike force … |
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A young nurse suffered cardiac arrest while training on the condition. Fellow nurses saved her life |
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Andy Hoang eagerly began her first nursing job this year in New Hampshire, with a desire to specialize in cardiac care. She was excited about attending a November practice session on how to respond to someone in cardiac arrest. But as things were getting under way at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hoang, 23, started … | |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Oklahoma mental health center investigated after 'truly horrific' abuse allegations surface (The Oklahoman)
- Washington pays $100M fine for neglecting mental health services months earlier than expected (Washington State Standard)
- Gov. Reeves mum on health care meetings, claims no documents exist (Mississippi Today)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Emails reveal how a hospital bowed to political pressure to stop treating trans teens (ProPublica)
- New gene therapies confront many sickle cell patients with an impossible choice: a cure or fertility (Stat)
- 15-week abortion bans are the center of Republican debate. Experts say that cutoff is arbitrary. (The 19th News)
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Nevada’s attorney general on Wednesday announced charges against six so-called fake electors who falsely claimed former President Trump won the … Read more |
| Former President Trump participated in a town hall hosted by Fox News's Sean Hannity on Tuesday, a night before the fourth Republican primary debate … Read more |
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