[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2567 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2567

    To require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention to issue guidelines relating to the prescription of opioids 
                            for acute pain.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 23, 2016

Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself and Mrs. Capito) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention to issue guidelines relating to the prescription of opioids 
                            for acute pain.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Preventing Overprescribing for Pain 
Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. OPIOID PRESCRIPTION GUIDELINES.

    Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall issue guidelines 
for the safe prescribing of opioids for the treatment of acute pain.
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