The efforts in the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act and 21st Century Cures have been impactful, but there is more that Congress must do to tackle the crisis.

This epidemic is in our hospitals, in our living rooms, and on our streets.

one postal inspector is certainly an issue

We cannot help American struggling with opioid abuse if they do not have health coverage.

the difficulty of identifying these packages that are coming in, whether it is FedEx, UPS, Postal Service

While our efforts in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act and 21st Century Cures have been impactful, there is much more that Congress can do to tackle this crisis.

Representative Hudson's bill addresses this problem from the packaging and disposal angle.

I sat down with my local law enforcement folks a number of months ago, actually almost a year ago

These bills today range from amending laws relating to the confidentiality of substance use disorder and patient data, to establishing comprehensive opiate recovery centers.

Representative Griffith's bill would realign prescription drug monitoring programs under the Centers for Disease Control to coordinate efforts to improve data collection into physician workflow.

I am concerned that we will only be able to give brief attention to many of the bills before us today.

We cannot allow agency inertia to get in the way of delivering those dollars where they are, in fact, needed.