Tim Murphy: “Medication-assisted treatment is there as part of a protocol, psychosocial therapy is part of a protocol.”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division F (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. For ``Substance Abuse and…

But in this time period of which it was available, I would assume that your addiction rate, your overdose and death rates have climbed, correct?

This just sounds like one of the biggest Rube Goldberg messes the Government could come up with.

Let me add to this. Yes, there was money in the Cures bill for opioid abuse for 59,000 people who had died from drug overdoses, but 350,000 people will die this year related to mental health problems. I want to make sure that Congress is…