[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 2, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1231-S1232]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3390. Mr. DAINES submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3378 proposed by Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. 
Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Durbin) to the bill S. 524, to authorize the 
Attorney General to award grants to address the national epidemics of 
prescription opioid abuse and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:


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       On page 8, after line 25, insert the following:
       (19) Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are also 
     at a high risk of substance abuse. According to the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs, more than 20 percent of 
     veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder also have a 
     substance abuse disorder.
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