[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 115 (Monday, June 16, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 34366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13912]


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OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY


Summit on Heroin and Prescription Drugs: Federal, State, and 
Community Responses

AGENCY: Office of National Drug Control Policy.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) will host a 
``Summit on Heroin and Prescription Drugs: Federal, State, and 
Community Responses'' highlighting the public health and safety issues 
surrounding prescription painkillers and heroin. The conference will be 
held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 19, 2014 in the South 
Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 17th 
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20500. While the 
summit is not open to the general public, it will be streamed live on-
line for the general public to view on www.WhiteHouse.gov/Live.
    The goal of the summit is to discuss trends and challenges in the 
epidemic of opioid abuse in the United States, identify innovative 
practices and models, and discuss how practitioners at every level can 
help reduce overdose deaths and public health consequences. 
Participants will include Attorney General Eric Holder, Vermont 
Governor Peter Shumlin, National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Dr. 
Nora Volkow, and experts from across the country on education, 
treatment, and overdose and infectious disease prevention. Summit 
participants will not be deliberating or providing consensus advice or 
recommendations to ONDCP. Issues explored will include expanding drug 
treatment access to millions through the Affordable Care Act, 
encouraging people and medical professionals to learn the signs and 
symptoms of problematic drug use and to intervene before substance use 
becomes a chronic condition, and supporting the use of naloxone, an 
overdose reversal drug that's easy to administer and has already saved 
thousands of lives.

    Dated: June 6, 2014.
Michael J. Passante,
Deputy General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2014-13912 Filed 6-13-14; 8:45 am]
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