On the recordJune 12, 2018
Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my strong support for H.R. 5261. This is the Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act, or more easily known as the TEACH to Combat Addiction Act. This legislation will designate and support centers of excellence or institutions of learning that have championed substance use disorder treatment. Improving how professionals are taught to effectively teach substance use disorder will also increase access to evidence-based treatment, in other words, treatments that will work and that we can prove will work. I want to thank my colleagues, Representative Bill Johnson and Paul Tonko, for leading this bipartisan and really important initiative. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Johnson), the leader on our committee, to talk more about his legislation.
