BRIEF—US Senate mulls extra $6 billion to fight opioid crisis

The stopgap budget deal wending its way through the US Congress will include $6 billion to help address the opioid addiction crisis, according to The Hill.

Senate minority leader Charles Schumer said the deal would “bolster our ongoing national struggle against opioid addiction and substance abuse,” by funding “new grants, prevention programs and law enforcement efforts in vulnerable communities all across our country.”

It was reported yesterday that the bill would redirect nearly $3 billion from an ObamaCare fund to other healthcare priorities.